This Same Purpose

Love is the only force strong enough to defeat fear and bright enough to expose its barrenness. Will we choose to live crippled by the fear of rejection, of facing our own inadequacies?

I thought I liked hearing people admire my life and accomplishments and skills and decisions. And I'll confess there have been times when I wanted people to think I had it all together. But really it was a painful reminder that I didn't.

While we need to be careful not to speak the wrong things, we also need to be willing to speak the right things — even if they’re hard to say.

All-in-all, it was a great experience. Not just because they're awesome people and fun to photograph, but because there's few things in life I value more than the opportunity to enter someone else's story and listen to the heart of who they are.