A journal for your life of faith, composed by you
Shema means: hear. With this journal you give your attention to what you read in the Bible, hear in church and pray. You choose what goes in: the church service, prayer, Bible reading, a sermon outline, a week on one page. Composing is free and needs no account.
You can compose a journal now. Subscribing or having your journal made is coming soon.
Hear, listen, focus
Shema is the first word of an old call in Deuteronomy 6: hear. In Hebrew that is more than taking in sound. It is listening, and acting on what you have heard.
Hear
It begins with receiving. You open the Bible, you sit in church, you grow still to pray. A journal gives that moment a place of its own.
Listen
Listening is staying with it. Write down what moves you, what you do not understand and what you want to remember. There are pages for the sermon, for Bible reading, Bible study and prayer.
Focus
To focus is to return. What you write down, you read again, and so you go deeper than a single reading. The words go with you through the week: at home and on the way, when you lie down and when you rise.
שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Compose first, choose afterwards
Compose
Choose the parts, the size and the paper. You see every page on your screen straight away. With an account your journal is kept.
Put it on paper
With a subscription you download the print file of everything you make for a year, for your own printer and plain A4. Soon we can also print, cut, punch and send it for you. You will pay for that per journal, without a subscription.
Finish it
Cut and punch for a ring binder, or fold and staple as a booklet. Shema Journal shows what to do at every step, with the page numbers of your own journal, so you waste no paper.
What you can make
- Journal Over thirty parts: church service, sermon outline, prayer, Bible reading, Bible study, gratitude, a week or month on one page, songs and more. With a table of contents, with or without page numbers.
- Bible booklet One or more books of the Bible to take with you, with a column for notes beside the text if you like.
- Ring binder or booklet Loose sheets with room for the holes, or a stapled booklet. You choose per journal and can still change it later.
Paper that steps back
Lines, squares or dots, in six quiet colours. Each colour is set to strength per pattern: visible enough to write straight, light enough to leave your own handwriting in front.
From A4 sheet to journal
Shema Journal places the pages on A4 so that they are in order after cutting or folding. These are the steps for an A5 journal of 16 pages on 4 sheets; the numbers in the drawing are page numbers. In the editor you get the same explanation for your own journal.
For a ring binder
- Print on A4, at actual size (100%). Turn off scaling and fit to page. Print on both sides, flip on the short edge.
- If in doubt, first print only the first sheet: the first two pages of the print file. Hold it up to the light. Page 2 is straight behind page 1, not upside down. If it is not, choose to flip on the other edge.
- Lay the stack in front of you, with the first sheet on top, the front facing up and the text upright. You see page 1 on the left. Do not change the order of the sheets.
- Cut the whole stack in half vertically in one go, at 148.5 mm.
- Put the right pile under the left pile.
- Punch the holes on the left side of the stack, the side with the wide margin. Page 1 is on top.
As a booklet
- Print on A4, at actual size (100%). Turn off scaling and fit to page. Print on both sides, flip on the short edge.
- If in doubt, first print only the first sheet: the first two pages of the print file. Hold it up to the light. Page 2 is straight behind page 1, not upside down. If it is not, choose to flip on the other edge.
- Lay the stack in front of you, with the first sheet on top, the front facing up and the text upright. You see page 1 on the right. Do not change the order of the sheets.
- Fold the whole stack in half in one go, backwards: the left half goes behind the right half, so page 1 stays on the outside. Do not fold the sheets one by one. Inside, at the middle fold, pages 8 and 9 are side by side.
- Put two staples in the fold, or sew the spine.
Composing is free. Printing takes a subscription.
One amount for a year, without automatic renewal. As long as you have no subscription, everything you compose simply stays.
Compose
Free
- The whole editor, with all parts
- Bible booklets in the free translations
- Every page as a preview on your screen
- With an account your journals are kept
Print it yourself
€10 to €20 per year
- A year of print files of all your journals and Bible booklets
- Laid out on A4 as a booklet or for a ring binder, in A5 or A6
- With the steps explained one by one: print, cut, fold, punch
- Print as often as you like
- Ends by itself after a year
Subscribing is not possible yet, and the exact price is to follow. Composing already is, and what you make is kept.
Have it made
Price to follow each, paid once
- We print your journal, without a subscription too
- Cut to A5 or A6
- Punched for your ring binder, or stapled as a booklet
- To your home by post, and you follow your order
Ordering is not possible yet. Later you pay per journal you have made, without a subscription.