Hark the Herald Angels Sing...in October?

I recently arrived at the end of the Old Testament in my Bible reading, and found some notes from a past sermon my pastor preached at Christmas.  He was talking about Jesus as Messiah, about how He fulfilled prophecy, and generally the miracle that Christmas is.  Then he related how Charles Wesley used the last verses of Micah to write "Hark the Herald Angels Sing."  Just hearing that tune in my mind brought the verses to life, and I penciled them in my Bible.

When I came across that penciled verse in my reading, and realized I had a bunch of white space in my Bible (yay!) I decided to journal.  I added some paint and as much of the verse as I could fit in.

This is the first time I've painted in my Bible with anything other than Distress ink.  I have to admit it was nerve-wracking!  After putting down some gesso, I added the blue acrylic paint and used my heat tool to help it dry more quickly so it wouldn't curl too much.  My Micron pen wrote so well over the paint, and Versafine stamped just as well.  Then I glittered up the stars with a Gellyroll pen.  Can't skip the stars when you're thinking about Christmas!  Adding some color around the verses finished everything.

Just looking at this puts me in a Christmas mood.  I'm so thankful for Jesus!