Rise Up is an annual young adults conference spanning five days & packed full of all sorts of good things to end the calendar year. This will be my fourth time attending CCO’s Rise Up & my third time photographing it, so I figured I’d pass on a little advice with the help of a […]

We sat on a bench we’d walked by many times before; my head on his shoulder, his arm around mine. The sun was setting as we sat in silence, the sky turning the same mixture of pink and purple as it had the first time we’d walked there together. We hadn’t been official that first […]

The street outside the window was full of gold, the last rays of sun filtering through the trees into my room. My cheeks were wet and my head sore from crying, although the truth is my head had been hurting for months already. I’d been in a car accident before the previous Christmas but as […]

I walked around the grocery store, the cloth handles of the shopping basket digging into my forearm as I looked for the next ingredient on my list. As I made my way down the baking aisle I passed all sorts of people going about their Saturday errands: an older gentleman pushing a full cart behind […]

I thought November was going to be ushered in with sparkling eyes & hot coffee & be absolutely magical. This cozy, set apart time that God made space for in my life. No weddings booked! Just as I view each wedding date that gets placed on my calendar as divinely set aside, I started viewing […]

Love doesn’t make it easier, but it makes it easier. We were not meant to go through this life alone. Community in the tangible sense, not just a word flippantly sprung off our tongues, may not make the burdens in our lives any less difficult, but knowing we belong, knowing we are loved, will make […]