Season of Trust {Be Real with Jessica}

January comes, and with it, a rolling stillness. The holidays are over, deadlines have been met, photos have been delivered, and there are no sessions on the books until March. This is a season of quiet. It is a season to refresh. It is a season to grow.

This is a season to trust.

As an art based business, two of the hardest things I have had to face are insecurity in my field, and the quiet ‘season’ in the photography business. Coincidentally, two of the best things that have happened to me as an artist have come from this season of waiting.

It was in this season, last year, that I broke down in tears. I had been running my business for just over a year, and things had been going so well. I had been blessed with so many amazing clients and I couldn’t understand why I wasn’t getting any emails or phone calls.

I couldn’t help but wonder, what did this quiet say about me as an artist?

So I was sucked into this cycle of comparisons. I would look through the images that popped up on my news feed, feeling lower and lower after every picture. I would then scroll through my own images, seeing ‘cheesy’ edits and ‘unimaginative’ concepts.

The thing was, all my clients loved their images. Almost everyone I knew supported me in my dream…but I let myself get in the way. I let my insecurities dictate this season of patience, and turn it into a season of doubt. I forgot one of the most beautiful promises GOD has ever made us as believers. The promise penned in the book of Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV).

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”

God has given me my business and my clients. Every single one of them have been put in front of my camera because God wanted them to be there.
It isn’t because I have mad skills, it is because HE has blessed me with a gift for a specific reason. HE didn’t have to, but HE did.

It is my belief that if every talent is a part of Christ’s body, then artists have to be His eyes. As artists we are entrusted with a very special gift, the gift to see the world differently, and to record it for everyone we meet.

So in this season of quiet, I choose a season of trust. I am trusting God with my business, my art, and my clientele. And I encourage you to choose to trust HE who knows you better than anyone else.