From the Scribbles and Sketches Collection

By Ruby Tobey

Do you look at nature and see God?
Do you marvel at creation?

Ruby Tobey does, and in this book, she expresses it with verses (scribbles) and drawings (sketches). Ruby writes about nature, family, flowers, and everyday happenings. Each thought is accompanied with an inspiring scripture and her black-and-white sketches. You will find new appreciation for God in her writing as well as enjoy her many drawings.

Kansas artist Ruby Tobey started writing short verses to accompany her black and white sketches. While she was raising 3 children the family often traveled in an old school bus camper and she filled many sketch books with ideas. She feels that her greatest blessing is the husband who patiently waited while she wrote notes and drew pictures.

You often express what I feel,(and wish Id said that).
Jane BowenGeorgia

I certainly enjoy your work, your devotionals, and poems. Thank you for sharing Gods gift He has given you.
Ruth ThompsonOklahoma

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 9, 2018
• ISBN: 9781973617112

Ruby Tobey

Kansas artist Ruby Tobey expresses her faith by writing poems (scribbles) and making drawings (sketches) of scenes around her. While their three children were growing up the Tobey family traveled many miles in an old school bus camper. Their outdoor adventures gave Ruby time to make many sketches. Some of them she used in publishing a yearly calendar. Now many of them are included in this book and a previous volume of Scribbles and Sketches.

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ISBN: 978-1-9736-1710-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-1711-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018901067

WestBow Press rev. date: 02/09/2018

Contents

Preface

Artist’s Despair

Get It Over With

This is the Day That the Lord Has Made

Help Someone

Problems and Suffering

My Lord Is Taking Care

Life’s Changes

Thank You for Prayer

Cleaning and Sorting

Love Seeds

Work the Plan

Life Under Construction

Attitude of Gratitude

Your Gifts

Trusting God

Majesty

Count Your Blessings

Just For Today

Time

Just Thinking about Time

You Can’t Direct the Wind, but You Can Adjust Your Sails

A Helping Hand

Give a Smile

The First Day of Spring

Our Values

The Nature of Talent

Talent

Prayer Is Like a Butterfly

Transformation

Changes

Time Marches On

Teach Me

Memories to Treasure

Keeping Life in Balance

Sharing

We Hope Winter Is Past

Pain

Elderly

Grow Old with Beauty

Elderly Ladies

Slow Me Down

Take Time

Take My Advice

Words

Murphy s Law/Tobey’s Law

Distractions

Friends

Friendship

And More Friends

The Year of the Bunnies

Comfort

Season Of Life

Everyone Wants to Live Longer; No One Wants to Get Older

To God Our Daily Thanks

Recipe for Good Days

The Technology Age

In Quietness

Dedicated to all the Tobey Tribe

(my husband, children, and grandchildren).

You helped make me what I am, and you are

a precious part of all my life.

Even though we don’t get to be together

Often, we are united in love.

Preface

Ruby Tobey records life in a sketchbook. When she was raising three children, there wasn’t always time to paint, but sometimes she would make a quick sketch. She filled many sketchbooks with drawings of homey farms, country scenes, mountains, wild flowers, and roadsides wherever the family traveled. She still makes those sketches whenever she can, in her own backyard or on travels with children and grandchildren. Ruby feels that sketching and painting in nature makes one even more aware that God is there