Good Things Are Coming

For the past few weeks, I’ve been feeling God poking and prodding at my creative side that I had put to rest. So, last week I renewed my website domain. Big whoop, right. I decided to start sharing my writing and my photography again. I thought this was a good place to begin – a good response to said poking and prodding.

And a good response it was. Because things just get better from here on out. I pinky promise.

I’ve been shooting photos for ages, and had always wanted to pursue it as more than simply just a hobby, but there was something holding me back. I let the fear of failing stop me from even having the chance to fail. But, after months of my good friend Jaime trying to get me to join our churches photography team, I finally decided to offer up my ABILITIES. To give back to God, what he has given to me – and this is where things tend to get interesting in my life. When I involve God.

Yes, you should keep reading.

So my current camera is a film camera. Which is great. It’s been my baby for years. But it has capped my creativity. Well maybe the camera in and of itself hasn’t, but I let it cap my creativity. I had ideas for digital photography projects. I’ve shot engagement and wedding photos before. But on someone else’s camera. I’ve had a clear passion and interest and fire for something, but just never invested. Again, I let the fear of failing stop me before I could even have the chance to fail. Imagine what we could achieve if we believed in ourselves just as strongly as we didn’t. Think about that.

Back to the story – sorry for sidetracking.

And though I love her (my film camera) oh so dearly, it felt like it was time to get a digital camera and explore that. It’s not a breakup, it’s just a break.  I just need to try some other things out and figure out what I need in a relationship – I mean in a camera.

Sorry, still sidetracking. Now it gets interesting, I swear. 

So then, I started looking for a camera. A Canon RP to be specific. If anybody even cares about specifics. I could’ve just bought one from Best Buy or something, but I had this feeling that I should check Facebook Marketplace. And it was a strong feeling. And I tend to be the type to listen to those. I have never had such strong feelings towards Facebook Marketplace before, my GOODNESS.

AND LOW AND BEHOLD there was actually an even better model of the camera that I had been looking for, at what some might call a SMOKIN’ deal.

“Probably has a cracked lens” you’re thinking.

NOPE. No cracked lens. It was in mint condition, in fact. And it just so happened that the woman I bought it from was an incredibly successful international photographer and Canon camera ambassador. That camera most definitely didn’t come with a cracked lens – it came with the most needed and encouraging words of advice and wisdom. Like what. How random. How good. It was like metaphorical gasoline being poured on my metaphorical fire – if we wanna talk in metaphors here. And I don’t believe in juju, my camera has FOR SURE got some good juju.

It feels good to know you’re heading in the right direction. To have confirmation that you’re going in the right direction. And to have random rays of sunshine thrown into your days. So basically that’s all to say that ALTHOUGH God might seem like some weird mystical figure in the clouds who is a perma-wrist-slapper, he actually cares for us so much that sometimes he’ll just randomly pop a camera and some encouragement into your life to remind you of just how loved you are :’)

And maybe you all think I’m way too excited about my new camera, but you know what? You read this far so you’re probably a little bit excited too.

OH THE PLACES YOU’LL GO.