Discovering Light in the Darkness

Create as You Awaken

Your Nativity Treasure Journal

Each lesson invites you to build a heartfelt Nativity-themed treasure journal—an 20-page keepsake that traces your own spiritual awakening alongside the story of Christ’s birth. This journal is completely optional, but if you love creating, you’ll craft a tender visual record of how God’s light has been breaking into your life, step by gentle step.

What You’ll Create

With each lesson, you’ll receive a free coordinated journal kit filled with patterned papers, tags, pockets, Scripture cards, and prompts. Using these tools, you’ll create pages that capture:

• All 10 lessons will share the same blue and gold color palette (creates beautiful cohesion)
• Each lesson will have unique tags/elements specific to that week's focus
• The same basic journal card templates will be used throughout
• Embellishments stay consistent with the overall theme

• Nativity symbols—stars, manger straw, lantern light, shepherd fields, desert roads—that mirror your spiritual journey

• Key Scriptures and meaningful reflections from each teaching

• Layered backgrounds, clusters, pockets, and textures that echo the themes of waiting, surrender, and revelation

• Visual storytelling that traces your movement from darkness into light

For example, the “Shepherds—Awakened in the Night” page might use navy skies, soft gold stars, and humble textures to illustrate how God meets us in ordinary moments with extraordinary truth.

Your Sacred Keepsake

By the end, you’ll hold a completed journal that:

• Reflects your spiritual growth through each stage of the Nativity story

• Becomes a visual testimony of how God’s light has touched your life

• Serves as a place of remembrance when you need encouragement or clarity

• Holds prayers, revelations, and milestones you’ll treasure for years

No Artistic Skill Needed

You’ll receive the printable kits, simple instructions, and plenty of room for creativity—nothing complicated, nothing intimidating. Whether you’re experienced or brand-new to journaling, this practice will help you slow down, breathe, and enter into worship through the beauty of making.

Why this works so well:

• Accessible - No hunting for supplies or wondering if colors match
• Personalized - You arrange and journal in their own way within a beautiful framework
• Keepsake quality - The finished 10-week journal will be gorgeous and unified
• Focus stays on content - The craft serves the spiritual formation, not the other way around

Your journal, your pace. Create visually or reflect quietly in writing. The goal isn’t a perfect page—it’s a heart awakened to His light.

A Study Born from a Lifetime of Watching God Bring Light into Dark Places

How It Works

The Light in the Darkness class begins December 1, with ten beautifully crafted lessons guiding you through the Nativity story as a mirror of your own spiritual awakening.

Three lessons per week in December:

• Week 1 (Dec 1-7): Lessons 1, 2, 3
• Week 2 (Dec 8-14): Lessons 4, 5, 6
• Week 3 (Dec 15-21): Lessons 7, 8, 9
• Week 4 (Dec 22-25): Lesson 10

Each lesson arrives with a free coordinated journal kit-patterned papers, pockets, Scripture cards, ephemera, and tags-so you can create as you learn, whether you prefer a disc-bound journal, a flip-and-flap folio, or simple printed pages in a binder.

After reading the lesson, you'll work through four gentle prompts designed to help you notice where God's light is touching your life.

You’re also invited to share your pages, ask questions, and enjoy fellowship inside the Bible Journal Classes Facebook Group, where others are creating alongside you. It’s a warm place to grow, connect, and be encouraged as you walk through the study.

Journal Prompts

✨ Light - What truth is God lighting up here? Pause and look closely. What part of the Scripture or the Nativity moment stands out as God's light breaking into your understanding?

✨ Path - Where is this leading me today?What direction is God pointing your heart? How is He guiding you-gently, clearly, or unexpectedly-through this lesson?

✨ Step - What simple step will I take now?Every act of obedience matters. What small, doable step of faith can you take in response to what God has shown you?

✨ Shine - How will this light bless someone else? Where can God's light overflow from your life into another? Look for the person, the moment, or the need He places on your heart.

Family Devotion

Each lesson also includes printable PDF family devotional with activities and questions. Simple enough for young children, meaningful enough for teens, perfect for homeschool families.

Journal Your Way

You choose how to create:

• Build a Nativity Treasure Journal filled with pockets, flaps, hidden tags, and Scripture clusters

• Create a digital layout in Canva or Photoshop

• Or simply write in a notebook and enjoy the reflection

There's no right or wrong way. The goal is to slow down, breathe, and let God's light meet you.

Community & Support

You will never walk alone. Join the Bible Journal Classes Facebook Group to share pages, ask questions, find inspiration, and encourage others who are walking through the same lessons.

• By Christmas Day, you studied through the entire Nativity story and applied it spiritually
• The journaling pages become a meaningful Christmas keepsake
• This is your season to awaken.
• Let's create something beautiful together.

What You’ll Discover

⭐ Light That Breaks Through

See how God meets you in the quiet, shadowed places—shining truth into fears, confusion, and unanswered prayers just as He did that first holy night.

⭐ Guidance for the Journey
Discover how God still leads His children step-by-step, through dreams, Scripture, nudges, and divine timing—just as He guided Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, and the Magi.

⭐ Hope in Every Season
Learn how God uses waiting, longing, and unexpected detours to deepen your trust and soften your heart. Even in darkness, He is preparing a dawn.

⭐ Creative Faith Practice
Blend Scripture study with journaling, layering, pockets, and art to help you SEE spiritual truth—illuminated, memorable, and alive.

Inside the Study

You’ll journey through 10 beautifully crafted lessons, each one exploring a key moment or symbol from the Nativity story—light, surrender, guidance, obedience, humility, worship, and awakening. Each lesson includes:

• Deep biblical teaching with Hebraic insight and heart-moving application

• A FREE Nativity Journal Page Kit filled with patterned papers, pockets, tags, and Scripture cards

• Symbolic imagery—stars, lanterns, manger straw, shepherd fields, desert paths—to anchor each truth

• Creative journaling prompts based on Flame • Path • Step • Shine

• Reflection questions that help you hear God’s voice in your own story

• Practical ways to recognize God’s light in your daily life

Experience a Heart Awakened by His Light

The Nativity isn’t just a historical event—it’s the pattern of how God brings light into our own lives. Through this study, you’ll learn to:

✓ Notice God’s light revealing truth in hidden places
✓ Understand how God leads through whispers, signs, and Scripture
✓ Receive peace and clarity in seasons that feel dark or uncertain
✓ Walk in simple, steady obedience even when the path is unfamiliar
✓ Shine His light into your relationships with renewed compassion and faith

Your Invitation

Join me for Light in the Darkness—a creative, soul-stirring Bible study that traces God’s light from Bethlehem into the deepest parts of your heart.

Let this be your December awakening.
Let His light guide you, steady you, and transform you.

✨ Follow the Light. Open your heart. Walk in His dawn.

Bible Journal Page Kits

Included with Every Lesson

Each lesson comes with a beautifully coordinated Nativity journal kit filled with patterned papers, pockets, tags, Scripture cards, and journaling pages—everything you need to create your Light in the Darkness layouts. No extra purchase is required.

Every piece is designed to reflect the theme of that lesson: night skies, stars, lanterns, manger textures, shepherd fields, and gentle hues of navy, gold, ivory, and beige.

These kits help you visually capture the moment God’s light breaks into your story—one page at a time.

Optional Add-On Kit

For those who love creating even more

If you enjoy layering, decorating, and adding rich detail, you’ll love the expanded Nativity Add-On Kit It includes extra patterned papers, journaling cards, tags, clusters, borders, and embellishments that match the December palette and all ten lessons.