01/06/2017
Hello dear, dear friends,
With the new year, our family is going to encounter a lot of new beginnings, and endings. From the birth of our daughter fast approaching in March, to our ministry being restructured and refocused, I'm really excited about what God is doing in and through Joseph and I.
This year will be bitter sweet with my recent decision to dissolve my photography business - but we plan to incorporate my photo/editing skills into our ministry so that I can focus solely on that endeavor. I will still be taking on the occasional portrait session with friends and family, but as limited as my time has been to dedicate to pushing/marketing/branding myself, I know that floundering around with barely the minimum in my photography business account is a poor excuse to keep listing a hobby as a career.
I want to thank everyone who has supported my photography through the years - it will never be something I stop doing/enjoying. I'm ready to take the next step with my growing family to do something that Joseph and I are two halves of. Joseph has been such a big help in showing me that closing my business isn't going to be a sore spot, but a jumping off point. I was really down on myself and anxious at first thinking about doing this, because it made me feel like I had failed. I still have a little of that feeling lingering around, and I'm sure with time I'll look back and know that it was all for the best because of what will be.
Here's to what will be in 2017 - the bitter, the sweet, the endings, and the beginnings. To all of these I say, Shalom.