About the project
Knowing Him in the ordinary hours
A sketchbook from a college class became a collection of small moments — and a conviction that He is closer than we usually notice.
Where it started
A number of years ago, while at college, I was given the freedom to create my own project as the final for a class on the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus Christ. I had just invested in some digital drawing tools and wanted to work them in somehow.
What came out was a small book of sketches showing Christ in simple scenes. I thought it would be fun to publish and share it, but the semester ended, other classes started, and I never looked into it further — though the idea never quite left. It stayed in the back of my mind as something I should do one day.
Picking it back up
Years later I started wanting to try something I had never done but always meant to. I pulled the original draft out and decided to follow through on getting it published.
Then I started visiting with friends and family about how Jesus Christ helps us, and those conversations changed the book. It stopped being art and stories about the Savior in general, and became specifically about how He helps us in small, everyday ways that usually go unnoticed. It seemed to me that far more miracles happen like that than in the grand ones we tend to hear about.
Why it matters to me
I believe we can have a real, personal relationship with Jesus Christ precisely because He is with us every day. Not visiting occasionally from somewhere far off — present, in the ordinary hours, in the parts of the day nobody would write down.
That is how a relationship actually forms: in the everyday. And as we come to know Him that way, something else happens quietly alongside it — we start to understand who we really are, because we are seeing ourselves through the eyes of Someone who has been there the whole time.
What this is now
That has become the reason for this whole project: to help strengthen faith in Jesus Christ by collecting as many moments as I can that testify He is with us always, no matter what we are going through — even when it is small, simple, and everyday.
My dream is to publish these moments in a book, filled with art of Jesus Christ among everyday people, and share it widely.
To everyone who visits and reads these stories — thank you, and I hope you feel Christ close to you as you do.
To everyone who shares a story — thank you for your help and your testimony.
I know Jesus Christ is real and is our Savior, and because He loves us, He walks with us in both good times and hard times, every single day.
— Samuel
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If Jesus Christ has helped you on an ordinary day, I would be grateful for you to share it here.
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