Honestly, after much thought and questioning it finally dawned on me…I didn’t pick photography. Photography was picked for me! It was a gift that was given to me for a purpose. I was blessed with the skills, I was given the opportunity to foster it through years of education, I was given parents and family who supported it from day one, I was blessed with the heart and passion for it and the realization that when you have a passion for something you go after it.

GOD choose photography for me! He made the decision that photography would be my skill. My passion. My love.

Why did he give me photography? Honestly, I’m still trying to figure that piece out. I know He has a plan for me. A plan to use this skill to His glory. I’m just still on the journey to discover what that purpose is…but in the meantime I will follow my heart and instincts. I will pray about my talents, my business and where He wants it to go. And I will do everything in my power to be the best I can be! I will keep learning and growing and use this skill to capture the lives of my beautiful clients that He blesses me with!

This is where somethings have been added since last year, I follow this awesome and incredible photographer, Megan Kelsey. She is wise beyond her years and so insightful with her words. One day, she posted this incredibly uplifting insight with the rest of us in a photography group on Facebook and gave me some light into my question of why photography?
“God has given you this business as ministry. You have been given the gifts and talents that you  have to lead people to Jesus. In the midst of the chaos…taxes, sales receipts, contracts, questionnaires, emails and mounds of editing…just remember that God has fully equipped you to love people and love them deeply. He’ll take care of you. Ask for wisdom in managing  your business and it will be given to you. This is your ministry. This is your mission field. And it’s a beautiful, unique and challenging one, but it’s one that can reach people’s hearts in a real and raw way. Whether that’s 12 hearts of 12,000..it doesn’t matter.” So what does that mean to me? This business is a ministry – just like a ministry within the walls of a church building, or a ministry out in the world fighting hunger & war. It’s a smaller ministry, not an obvious ministry. But it’s still a ministry, a way for me to show the world what a follower and believer of Jesus looks like. A real disciple. Do I still wonder about this ministry-every day! Do I stress that I’m making the right decisions and wonder if this will work, will it provide for me& my family? Am I doing what is being asked of me? Am I living within His will? Yes. I question that everyday. Yet, everyday I get up and know in my heart of hearts, that I am doing the right thing. I wasn’t given this passion and love for nothing.

I’m still not sure if there is a bigger plan for me with this business, bigger than reaching people where they are. Bigger than making time stand still for generations. Bigger than just being there and playing a small role in my clients lives. Bigger than sharing the world through my eyes and bigger than just quietly and kindly sharing Jesus with the world through actions. I have no idea. But what I do know is that I will continue to fight for whatever the mission God has for me. I will continue to grow in it and foster it and build is as long as He sees fit.