My friend Pete Wilson and his whole family are in the new Taylor Swift music video. Pete and his wife are the couple fighting (haha) and his boys play Taylor’s kids. Pretty cool to see friends in a number #1 music video. Check it out:
(Laura and Ella- First day of 1st Grade)
I love these two more than words can express. I love how Natalie’s hair is all crazy and how Ella is so happy. I submit that I can not love two human beings more than these two!!!
Starting shooting some portraits with an Alien Bee 22″ Beauty Dish with an Alien Bee 1600w Strobe. This was one of the first shots I took of my partner in crime Mr. Cal Knapp. Love the light and the catch lights in his eyes. If ya want some shnazzy photos like this one, just hit me up!!!
Today is already a great day. I have registered my oldest child for 1st grade, hung out with my wife, drank a chocolate banana vivano at Starbucks and am currently listening to Muddy Waters Blues album and praying and reflecting on our day yesterday at Compass Roanoke. I like sitting on what happened the day before for a night. It really gives me fresh perspective on what and how God moved. Here are a few highlights from our day yesterday.
… to open the service.Those are a few of my thoughts. What was it that blew you away yesterday? Don’t forget that we continue in our series “LET IT BE” on Sunday. This next week we are going to talk about how to control our tongues. That one should be fun. Also, don’t forget to pick up your copy of “Everyday Wisdom” that our teaching team wrote. Today is day 9 in the book. Love to hear what God is speaking to you through those devotionals. Final thing…Who are you bringing with you next week to Journey with us? Have a great week. Look forward to hanging with all of you this next weekend.
-Trevor-
My good friends over at the organization SHE DANCES are in the middle of a campaign to raise money to get their safe house in Honduras funded for the next year. They are asking 200 people to commit to $20 a month for the next year. It seems a small price to pay to give girls their lives and innocence back. Here is what they wrote on their website recently:
Every girl deserves to dream. Every girl deserves hope. Every girl deserves to love and to be loved. Every girl deserves to dance. When she dances she is alive… when she dances she is free. She’s free to live, to laugh, to love. She’s free in her heart… she’s free in her spirit. Hope moves within her… beauty finds her. She Dances.
You and I have the ability to give these girls the things that we have everyday…FREEDOM!!! Please go check them out and find a way to sacrifice $20 a month to help. Feel free to go to our Remedy For This Heart website and purchase the shirt under human trafficking. All of the proceeds go straight to SHE DANCES.
The last two days my good friend Cal and I spent our time in Houston, TX with our good friends Sara Douglas and Nathan Lewis. This weekend was their wedding and we were pumped to go down and shoot this one. We did their engagement photos back in the fall and have been anticipating the wedding day every since. They are a beautiful couple with amazing friends and incredible families. Yesterday was a thirteen and a half hour photo fest with some AMAZING people!!! Here is a preview of what’s to come.
This past week I shared with our Compass Roanoke people a story about the cuteness of my Natalie singing about wanting to be a sheep. Here is your dose of cuteness tonight. I thought we could all use this in our Tuesday night lift tonight. Your are welcome in advance.
I never knew that I could fall in love everyday with someone, but I do. Your beauty amazes me.
Your brilliance astounds me.
Your heart for others blows me away.
Your integrity is unmatched.
Your love for our children is unfathomable.
Your faith in Christ is admired by me as your husband.
I love falling in love with you again everyday!!!
Yesterday was a good day. The morning was spent getting much done and making contact with many people.
12:15pm, much like most Wednesday’s, was time to go to the elementary school and mentor the 3rd grade students our staff has the privilege to pour into each week.
Lunch with Jeremy Peterson followed as we ate quesadillas and burritos to commemorate Cinco De Mayo.
The rest of the afternoon was spent writing, preparing and getting ready for some great meetings with some great people the rest of the week. I knew that time was going to be tight the rest of the day due to the fact I was going to have another meeting with some AWESOME people again last night.
4:00pm I went and picked up my girls from school and headed home to spend an hour and a half with them.
One of the things I love about my girls is that they love art in any form and they really love listening to music on vinyl. So we did what any person needing to relax did…
We pulled out Ella’s art set she got for Christmas. Now this is not just any art set, this is a professional art set with drawers of charcoal, pencils, blending pencils, erasers, clay and paints.
I put on the Dead Weather Album first. The girls went silent, as did I, and we began to just draw and create whatever came to mind. Then we switched the vinyl to Led Zeppelin.
Ella and Nat are now bobbing their heads to “Good Times, Bad Times.” As a result I had a very therapeutic hour of sketching, drawing, and silence with my two little girls.
Not sure why, but I ended drawing something that started quite dark and ended up having color and glimpses of life. I MUST DO THIS MORE!!!
Laura came home and began to make dinner. What followed was a great salad with orange peppers, cheese, nuts, chicken and crasins in it. As we sat an ate the record finished spinning and the needle made its way back into the locked position. We sat in silence as a family and ate. It was relaxing for the few moments we got to do so yesterday.
What creative thing makes you relax and think better?
Bio: What makes me...well...me? There are a lot of things that make up the complexities of who I am. I love God, my wife, my two little girls, and all types of crazy interesting people. I love good conversation, a bit of controversy, rebellion with a cause, and hot green tea. I love to write, read, take photos, and spend time on my patio with good friends and my beautiful family. Scripture confuses, perplexes, intrigues, and floors me. It brings me hope, joy, and frustration. I work for one of the greatest churches in the country with the greatest team ever assembled. We will challenge you and your staff to a duel on the playground at 3:10 on any afternoon. This space is for us to conversate and share thoughts on life, love, creativity, and ministry. Welcome to my little nook of the web. I hope you will come in, take off your shoes and stay awhile.
