I am in awe

of what God is doing in my life right now.

August 12th, I saw my doctor and he gave me permission to stop taking one of my antidepressants. After I left his office, I went to the groery store on our military base where I promptly pulled too far into the parking space & bumped someone's car. Not a good start. That day I also got an email from a friend asking me to let her know my prices for the traditional pg photos. The next day, my mom emailed me & suggested that I take some business classes at our local college to help with starting a photography business. The following Saturday, 8/16, a good friend asked me to put together a portfolio and apply for a part time job taking team photos of the children's soccer teams.

All of that in one week. I am not confident in my abilities as a photographer. I know I can take a decent photo, but I certainly don't think they are quite professional quality. I was feeling fear creeping in.

Over the past 2 weeks, I asked a couple of families if I could practice portraits with their kids. Saturday, 8/23, I had 2 ladies ask me to do portraits of their families as well. So, I now have 5 families that I have to schedule. But, God has taken the fear I was experiencing and has turned it to excitement.

This weekend, I also felt very strongly that God wanted me to talk to my pastor this week about 2 different, yet related, things. First, to share my testimony and second, to ask about starting a program called Celebrate Recovery or a similar program in our church.

I walked into church this morning wrestling with God's direction to share my whole testimony. I would gladly share the short version. But no, God kept telling me that He wants my whole testimony.

When I entered the church building, I saw that there were sign-up sheets for the next round of discipleship classes. The first one that caught my eye was..............Celebrate Recovery. I was speechless. God told me to talk to my pastor this very week about CR and here was a sign-up sheet! Even more amazing to me, my pastor told me this morning that he was debating on if he would be teaching that class or another one. My response was to tell him that I went through the leader training one month before I moved here.

As for my testimony....the one I am being led to share is the one I shared at CR shortly before I moved.

So, God is preparing a career for me. Something that I love. Something that I have dreamed of doing for YEARS. And, God is opening doors within my church for me to share a part of myself and possibly help launch an incredible ministry.

I have wanted to share this all day, but I have been just so in awe of what God is doing, I have had trouble finding the words.

And for anyone who is wondering about why I have not posted any recent photos....I need to recharge my camera battery and I just downloaded the photos to my computer last night! I promise there will be more pictures soon!