One Little Word UP - CALM and Giveaway

I'm on a 10 day service trip in Guatemala.  It's our 9th one!  But while I'm there...

the "word up" this month at One Little Word is CALM.  The wonderful animals of Corrine Gilman, the beautiful girls of Mindy Lacefield, and this poem by William Wordsworth, inspired my art journal page. 

Calm is All Nature as a Resting Wheel

Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The kine are couched upon the dewy grass;
The horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal:
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal
O'er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Home-felt, and home-created, comes to heal
That grief for which the senses still supply
Fresh food; for only then, when memory
Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me droop again.

William Wordsworth

This is part of the circle journal project I have been working on and blogging about.  If you click on the link for circle journal, you will see all the posts with lots of video tutorials!  

On either side of my "Calm" spread, I spread modeling paste through my Cascading Feathers and Hebrew Calligraphy Hamsa stencils.  The words in the Hebrew stencil, and the feathers, calm me.   The translation is:

May God bless you and keep you
May God cause the divine light to shine upon you and be gracious to you
May God turn toward you, and grant you peace
(Numbers 6: 24-26).

I hope you'll create something inspired by the word "calm."  And please link up at One Little Word!

Last month, the word up was Aspire, and I promised a giveaway to someone if they linked up.  The winner is Ruth L!  Ruth, email me at jessicabethsporn (at) gmail (dot) com and I will send the Jump for Joy stencil to you! 

Comment on this post by Sunday night, 2/23 at 11:59PM EST, for a chance to win the Cascading Leaves stencil!  (And on the Stencil Girl site, you can see MaryBeth Shaw working with it!)

2/25/14 Update: The winner is Die Amelie - Claudia!  Congratulations Claudia! Send me your snail mail addres (to jessicabethsporn (@) gmail (.) com and Stencil Girl will send it to you!

I'll have another stencil giveaway of my Runes stencil on that blog hop.

Your comments make me so happy and let me know you were here. I read and treasure every comment and will happily answer any questions as soon as I can.