12th
His work
For years I’ve thought a lot about my career as a photographer and my testimony of Christ and how I want them to progressively blend. In short, I want the Lord to guide my life’s work. I want to inspire people and specifically to teach them about Christ. I see the Mormon.org short video segments on every day members of the church and I am both impressed and inspired. It would be a life dream to “testify of Christ through film”. I don’t know how many times I said that when I was younger. Now the medium may be different than film but I still have that desire, probably more intensely now as I’ve gotten older. I wanted to be an actor as a kid and found out pretty quickly I was more interested in the creative process from behind the camera rather than in front. Since graduating college I’ve been self-employed as a photographer and that has brought both “pleasure and joy” as my patriarchal blessing states that I will experience in my work. I feel like I’m at another plateau, these thoughts are pressed upon my mind and so I write this tonight. I’ve traveled extensively, seen and photographed a lot of amazing things and people, brought many smiles and truly found “pleasure” in my work. There have been moments of joy in my work up to this point, no question, but I feel like it’s time that I tip the scales a bit more and both receive and share that joy through photography.
I just recently read the article by Spencer J. Condie on Handel’s Messiah. I want to know like George Frederic Handel knew, that “God has visited me.” Then I will be satisfied knowing I’m doing his work, not mine.
