Congratulations! You have just visited the most popular post on my blog. Since this first post about drawing Celtic knots in 2014, I've continued to grow in skill and enthusiasm for drawing Celtic knots, and to explore Celtic Christianity. Will you join me for this Celtic creative & spiritual retreat? In this online course you will learn easy ways to draw Celtic knots, designs and lettering while going on a creative and spiritual journey through the Celtic Christian hymn 'Be Thou my Vision.' Below is a video that shows and tells a bit more. You can find out the details at: https://valeriesjodin-courses.teachable.com/

Many Celtic knots have no beginning and no end. The Christian influence in the Celtic culture redeemed the Celtic knot from the futility of the endless cycle of life to death, transforming it into the hopeful symbolism of life, death and resurrection. In this course, as you draw the Celtic knots in these lessons, you can meditate on the hope we have of everlasting life knowing the God of the cosmos chooses to intertwine Himself with you personally.

Here is a flip-through of the journal that is featured in the course demos:

In this course, there are 20 illuminated page lessons, one lesson for each phrase in the hymn, which has five verses/stanzas. The knots chosen in each lesson are ones are chosen to relate to the meaning of the words in the hymn. The individual lessons all have detailed video instructions and a PDF layout of the illuminated page, as well as 20 companion video and PDF devotionals with heart-full questions and prompts at the end of each lesson included.

Here is a video that tells about some of what I learned about St. Patrick and one of my favorite hymns 'Be Thou my Vision."

Back in 2014 keys were a symbol for for me. They open things. My mind was opening up to Celtic knots. I've always been drawn to them and have even painstakingly drawn them, but since I watched David Nicholls how to draw Celtic Knot videos, I feel like the door to them has been unlocked. I even see the reference books I have on Celtic Knots in a completely new way, a way that makes them more accessible. It was the beginning of an art-filled, spiritually symbolic adventure. Here are excerpts from the original post that was only the beginning...

Here are a few entries in my journal from August 2014:

Here are the beginning pages from the ‘Be Thou my Vision’ journal:

"Dear Lord,

even though I am rough around the edges,

You love me.

You collaborate with me,

You bring forth beauty -

from ashes.

I am grateful."

Valerie Sjodin