CHANGE OF PLANS

Walking down a block top path in a rural area, I have a DSLR in my hand. Every once in awhile something catches my eye and I take a minute to capture it! Joy spreads across my face as I continue to walk towards a house entry way. A little girl is outside playing and I take some photos of her while I'm walking up the drive way. I enter the home announcing my arrival to the family inside. The father comes out to greet me with warm familiar hellos and the mother beckons me further in. As I walk I see the photos lined on their wall full of beautiful family memories. People of my own heart. As take a seat I begin to talk about price packaging and the scene fades.


Awakening from that startling dream, I sit up and threw my feet to the side of my bed. The frown on my face is speaking loud and clear. What was that all about? I get out of my bed in silence and begin to pray. I just invested in becoming an Advocare team member and was so passionate about helping people loose weight, something I had always tried to do for friends in the past. But this dream put all of that to halt. Me a photographer? Sure I have already taken some photos for fun and attempted to take pictures of my daughter when she was 3 months to save money. They were fine for me to keep. But that was a bust in my opinion. Yeah I had a good eye and I'm creative, but how would I afford the equipment? I have no money, my savings was spent, how would I do any of this? Is this what you really want me to do? Leave what I'm currently doing behind and start something fully new?

I remember that grenade full of questions going off on the inside of me. But once I settled down, I heard God speak. Trust me, let me Lead you I know what your capable of even if you don't. I could not deny the one that lead me my whole life. It was so easy having child like faith as a child but adulting came with experiences that honestly hindered that in me as I matured. I trusted Him and that's all I knew and so I let Him lead me and here I am 6 years later in 2020.

There have been many times I have wanted to give up and throw in the towel. But through those 6 years I learned that the things that God calls me to may give me some headaches but mostly make my heart soar with fullness of rest and joy. I will be a photographer for life no doubt. It is now apart of who I am. And just like with everything else I do, God will always get the Glory for it. Because if it were not for that dream, I would have at the very worst went down with the Advocare sinking ship. And I would have missed out on all of this.