Marc got a job!

So many good things have been happening lately. Marc has been unemployed for 3 years..and while it has been amazing to see God bless us through photography, it's really nice for him to have a job. I am so very proud of him. He created the change he wanted to make in his life when he went on a job interview a fee weeks ago. The company was hiring for a computer techy position and Marc really wanted a new career path. So the jist of it is that he went out there and say, 'I can do your computer work, but this is really want you to hire me for'....so he proceeded to tell them what he could do for them, and they hired him!! It took some guts, but he is so happy with his new job. He got offered another job yesterday and he turned it down. He's really happy where he is at this new job and feels that God really wants him there. So many blessings!

God DOES use me and God DOES hear me

I am really going to try to update more often. God has been doing so many things in my life to show me that He hears me. For instance...I have been looking for some wooden chairs so that I can paint and grunge up a bit for my photography props. Every one I saw was just way out of my price range..and when I did see one I could afford I didn't have the money for it. A few weeks ago I passed by a house for sale, and out on the curb were 3 chairs that were perfect for me!! What a blessing that was! I was waited on the Lord and He provided...

But my BIG story is this..
I have been photographing a precious family for 3 years now. They have totally blessed me. When I go and drop portraits off at their house it is the most peaceful experience. I rarely walk into someone's home and have peace come over me, but with this family I do. 'B' is one of the most amazing mothers I have ever met.
Well I had shown her a gorgoeus picture I took I of my daughte and when she saw it, she said she wanted one just like it of her daughter. So we did the session and she said, 'You have given me what I have always wanted". That really blessed me. That's why I do this.. so that I can bless others with images of thier children/family that they will always remember. At the time, all she could afford was an 8x10. I knew in my heart she truely wanted a larger one. The sad thing was that somehow those images just disappeared. I knew I didn't delete them, but suddenly they were gone..just vanished!! Several months ago a friend of mine wanted to order her Easter portriats, and when I opened up her folder, there were the missing images!  It was just God.. I don't know how they got there. Well, my lab was doing a buy 1 get 1 free sale..and God knows I have a ton of pictures of my own children LOL... I felt very strongly that I was supposed to get this image of her daugther in a 16x20. It had been on my heart for awhile, and this was the perfect opportunity.
So I called "B" and told her I was coming over to give her back a frame she had left with me...and I had my 'surprise' with me..
When I showed up and gave it to her, she jumped and screamed and cried for joy. I was so amazed.. Her story was that she had really wanted that picture, and had it on a list of things she wanted. She was very clear that it was just things, just material things.... but that it was a desire . She turned that desire over to the Lord earlier in the week about getting that picture and told no one.. It was just between her and God.. and then I showed up later in the week with that very portrait she wanted!!! What an amazing testimony for us all.. that when we cast all our cares upon the Lord and give Him the desires of our heart, He will bless us with the very thing we desire. For me, it showed me that I DO hear from God. My biggest prayer is that God will use me, and He did use me in her life. She shared some things with me that I really needed to hear. Things that God wanted me to know..she had no idea that her very testimony would be a seed in my life. God is so good and faithful to bless us and give us our desires..even if it is JUST things. He wants us to enjoy the life He has given us and have those things we desire and when we give those wants and desires back to Him for Him to bless us with, it's even more precious and more meaningful then if we had tried on our on accord to have them....Needless to say I was cloud 9 all day that God chose to use in me such a mighty way..

My heart breaks..

It has been a long time since I posted. We went through not having the internet for awhile. You don't realze how dependent you are on technology till you don't have it.
I wish I felt more like writing...but the truth is that there is so much going on that I don't know where to begin. I know God is in control of it all so I try to keep a positive head. As a photographer I have photographed joys and pains in the last few months. I have done several maternity sessions and a few births...some happy, some sad. The saddest most heart wrenching session I have ever done was in September. My friend had known for a very long time that her precious Vivian would not live to grow up and become a young woman. She wouldn't get to see her take her first steps or celebrate her first birthday. We all prayed that God would give them time with thier baby once she was born and He did. Vivian lived 15 hours, and in those 15 hours she lived an entire lifetime. We heard her sing, we saw her smile, she met all her the people who love her. It was the hardest thing I have ever done. When I look back at her precious pictures I realize WHY I do what I do. I helped a family have memories of their beautiful precious baby. I have put together an album for her parents...here are several of the pages I did. Vivian's parents asked that I share her story. Vivian was born with a condition called anacephaly.. it's a neural tube defect where the brain does not completely form. Here are images of precious Vivian Marie...