Faith...

WOW - things have been amazingly busy for me this summer and I am simply overwhelmed with all the incredible feedback from all of my clients over the past few weeks. It makes my heart fly out of my chest when someone tells me that they litterally cried when they saw their portraits for the first time...it still amazes me when anyone other than my family loves my work. To be honest, I cannot take credit for any of it - it is all God. Sometimes I see a portrait I created and I ask myself - "how on earth did I do that?"!!! I love what I do and sometime during each of my sessions I know God takes over and works through me - my prayer is always that he will touch each and every family I come in contact with. During the time we were praying about the move to this new house and studio, it was a very trying, difficult time. We had been through so much over the past three years and we just wanted to make sure that we were where God wanted us to be. From the world's point of view, I am sure that it must have looked like we were off our rocker...gone off the deep end. A lot of people put you in a box based on your past experiences...really what is happening is they are putting God in a box saying he can't do amazing things that surpass what makes sense. I praise God that he never puts us in a box. I have learned over the past few years and now recently, that I am not in control - what I have in my life is not of my own doing - it is all from him. I am a "billboard" kind of girl - I need signs up in neon from God. God kept telling me to trust him - have faith. But I was scared. It had been an emotional couple of weeks and the day we finally made the decision to go ahead with the new house, I was driving home and passed a local church...this is what their sign said:

Faith, sees the invisible
Faith, believes the unbelievable
Faith, receives the impossible

Can it get any clearer! I really wanted to share this...maybe it might help someone. I leave you with a few portraits from this weeks sessions.