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Project Type: Design

Night of Worship Poster / Social Media Graphic

Created for the Berry College Chaplain’s Office

Jenna Johnson Photo Logo

Created For Jenna Johnson Photo

7th Well Fact Sheet

Created for 7th well chattanooga

Exclusive Concert Dinner Invitation

Created for the berry college chaplain’s office

Bible Study Social Media Graphic

Created for the Berry college Chaplain’s Office

Community Brunch Social Media Graphic

Created for the Berry College CHaplain’s Office

John Mark McMillan Concert Poster

Created for the berry college chaplain’s office

Hello.

Lover of words. Believer in the goodness of God. Recently-discovered extrovert who’s always down for a dance party, a second cup of coffee, and listening to stories so I can probably write them into a book one day. Also a big fan of running, graphic design, photo, video, and the Oxford comma.

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strength and empathy mixed with punching bag fists to holding your hand in the early hours of this morning we centered ourselves in prayers that God would whisper to us in the midst of chaos and too many feelings. greeting card encouragement and closet conversations and women at the well realizations and motherhood dreams and hearts shaped into journaled pages and dark eye bags and passion that lights your eyes on fire in one of the darkest nights when we reached out and found the hand that doesn’t let us walk alone. #internationalwomensday

Challenging myself to remember the sacred moments this morning. The past few weeks have looked like a lot of conversations where I leave just feeling soaked in shame, and this morning I was reminded I’m not the only one to have ever felt that and there’s a space for that in the Light. I’m grateful for a God whose voice is a megaphone when He finally gets us alone and in a quiet space where His Word is our only focus. I’m reminded today that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, and maybe you needed to hear that because you’re in the midst of a really dark season or because it just feels like a Monday and you’ve barely gotten out of bed. There’s space for you at the table of God, and He didn’t save a seat next to you for the voice of shame.

Most mornings I wake up, and I have to fight the voice of the enemy to push through to the voice of God’s sustaining grace. It’s a discipline, no doubt. But this morning, it felt like I was waking up to a whisper of, “You get to give yourself grace today. You’re already dead-center in the place I’ve called you to be in right now.” And I love that our God is a God of details, and my God is one who knows exactly what I need when I need it before I even know I need it. I listened to a sermon yesterday where the pastor said God’s love is more than God telling us He loves us, like we imagine earthly love, but it’s God PREFERRING us. PREFER. God prefers you. Chosen above all things. I had never thought of it like that before, and I have to wonder if that connection is the reason I woke up feeling like I was centered in God’s sustaining grace. It rocked me in a different way, so I’m hoping it rocks you too and knocks down the voice of lies this morning. Happy Sunday, friends. P.S. this is me yesterday in the midst of filming a VERY dreamy wedding with my DREAM camera. Big things are happening right now, and I’m very grateful to be present for all of them.

A prayer for BREAKTHROUGH. New blog link in the profile. "I find that my best prayers with God lately happen on the floor of the shower. Yes, just me sitting under the water and talking to Him. I’ve prayed for more intimate moments with God, to know Him more deeply and understand His character in my day-to-day life, and I had the thought tonight, after many nights of praying on the shower floor, 'God even sees me in the shower.' I don’t know what gets more exposed, vulnerable, and intimate than that."

Every second of today felt like my soul was being quenched. I was driving today and thought, “I’m looking for an encounter with God.” Most of the trip was spent in silence and talking with Jesus, and it’s funny, I didn’t know how much I needed that time because I feel like we’ve been talking a lot lately. We stopped at this river all the time on the way to Asheville when I was a kid, so I knew taking a detour would feel special and nostalgic. Getting away from home is sometimes good though because we get the reminder that home is in Him, and yes, He’s a God who wants to lead us beside quiet waters, but sometimes He reminds us of that when we stand next to the loudest waters. Today felt sacred.

Takes your breath away a little, right? • Sent off this gallery today and DANG it was the dreamiest afternoon with these two in Downtown Woodstock.

I ended up on the front page of my website while I was in the middle of writing and changing and rearranging. And it was cool to have those words I wrote quite a while ago remind me of why I started the writing and the photo and the video in the first place. It was always for the story, for the being seen and known and undone. “If I could, I would put a bright, yellow neon sign that reads ‘IMPORTANT’ on this front page because you’re entering into some space I hold very near and dear to my heart. These things are written everywhere: passenger seats, staff meetings, in the middle of a senior seminar class, a bar in a coffee shop, and my parents’ kitchen table. I love a lot of things, like videos that make you cry, a specific sort of coffee I’ve only ever found at Earth Fare, and that feeling you get from hearing people read words out loud, but I love storytelling the most. I love what it does to people. This is the best job, even on the worst days: there’s something about honest writing that turns people to mush and makes their eyes into windows you can see straight through to really deep parts of their hearts. Truth wins every time, and that’s something I’m only starting to learn. Truth undoes the stories in each of us, stories we’ve kept hidden or waited to tell or been quiet about when we hope people will ask us more so we can stand up and scream the truth from rooftops.” 📸: @kendal.patterson

Today she said, “You can’t light a fire, walk away, come back, and wonder why the house burnt down,” and it hit me hard in ways that I didn’t know I needed to process. If you know Nicole, you know about her pursuit of people. This friend is a powerhouse of wisdom and light and one of those people that works tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure people know they are seen and known and valued. She is constantly seeking to know the Lord better and to reflect that to all the people she gets to interact with, and because of that, I can tangibly sense the presence of the Holy Spirit in our conversations. Today I’m extra grateful for her, and her pursuit of people, to say, “Hey, get in my car we’re going to Starbucks.” P.S. Low quality pic, but a super high quality person.

“And You comfort us in our greatest unraveling.” I heard those words sung over a room of students last night and didn’t realize how much I needed to hear them, how much God’s Love doesn’t make sense and how we really may not ever understand it. And the unraveling might not look pretty or what we expected it to look like, but it’s everything we never knew that God had in mind for us. He meets us in that unraveling. And this morning, I’m reminded that these are the words spoken over me, and they’re words spoken over you too. 📸: @kendal.patterson

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