Hello, friend. I am so glad you’re here. Quite honestly, I am privileged and honored that you found this space and desire to dig in with me a bit more. So here’s the thing, much like myself, this website is in constant process, transforming and evolving as the affections in my heart transform and evolve.
As I’ve evolved and grown as a creative over the last 10 or more years, God has shaped my heart to run after His more. I started out as a photographer, photographing babies and families in the Cypress, TX area beginning in 2006. I still do this from time to time, but in recent years have focused my creative efforts on loving people and helping them to grow.
In 2014, I had what was diagnosed as a Transient Ischemic Attack. In common terms, a ministroke. In spiritual terms, a great breaking. As I have processed this experience, I always come back to this picture: it was as though the Lord picked me up out of my own self-made world, and set me down in my house to tend to what was really important. Over the years of being what I would consider a successful portrait photographer, I had developed a tendency to strive and work for things that were really not meant for me. That striving produced more striving. That striving produced a heart that was running after fame and fortune and a life that, while it looked immensely full on the outside, was extremely empty on the inside.
So home I went. I entered into a season of rest and solitude. Communion with God, practicing awareness, paying attention and being present to the here and now. In this brand new season, I began to experience a real relationship with Jesus, and was able to comprehend the miracle that was my life. This season came with great benefits, but also great heartache. I was forced to unearth the sin and junk that held me captive and bring it all out, holding it up to the Light. The heartache was seeing myself as I really am, with underlying motivations and tendencies. The joy that came from becoming more aware and able to address those motivations and tendencies came in the form of freedom; freedom from the work and striving, and freedom to really rest in who it is that God has called and purposed me to be.
In this season of rest, I put down my camera and picked up paintbrushes. Sitting in the Word, creating, and letting the truth wash over me was not only a deep blessing, but drew out a different kind of creativity. I had to let go of a lot of things which were holding me captive, things that were distractions, and things that were just plain unhealthy. Letting go allowed my hands and heart to be free to hold things more loosely, but to also hold more firmly the things that I am meant to. This has been a season of Christ-awareness and cultivation, identifying that which separates me from Christ and moving toward His fullness.
And all of this has led me to a tool called The Enneagram. The Enneagram is a tool for growing compassion, a tool for empathy, a tool for exposing the basic desires and fears of our egos, or flesh. More than all of these, however, the Enneagram is a tool that helps us to live more fully in line with who Christ is, and who we are in and through Him.
But as I said before, I am a work in process. When I found the Enneagram, it wasn’t an easy fix. The system isn’t like the other personality typing systems you’ve come across. You might be wondering how it is different, or what it could possibly add to your life. And if you are, I encourage you to click here to find out.
If you are interested in commissioning me for a custom watercolor painting, you can click here.
If you’re looking for a photographer, I’m sad to say that I am no longer doing that work. But I am happy to point you in the direction of some great photographers who I know would serve you well! Click here for that list.
To read more about faith and finding it, click here.