Worship Musician May 2018 | Page 96

PHOTOGRAPHY [ OPPORTUNITY IS WRAPPED IN OBEDIENCE | Blue Amber ] “Opportunity is wrapped in obedience.” - God was reminding me not to give up on it. He We, as photographers, get some pretty unique Michael Todd would provide it. He did. In a bigger way than I opportunities in our line of work. If photography was even imagining.   was in the Marvel Universe (sorry, DC, but I’m What’s your word for this year? You know, the Marvel all the way) our superpower would be word that you’ve chosen to write on a sticky As I was in the passenger seat of the car, driving we get to freeze time. (10 points to whoever note and attach it to every mirror, journal, and down the interstate, wondering if I should write can come up with a cool superhero name for fridge for the year? Maybe you haven’t tried about my word this year in this article, I looked us.) We have the OPPORTUNITY to capture this yet, but let me tell you, it works. Each year, out the window to see a billboard with the word, and preserve life changing moments in people’s my pastor asks us to choose one word we are “Opportunities” in big, bold letters across it. lives, historical events, and so much more. That. Is. My. Word. OPPORTUNITY. How? Below are some ways photographers believing for God to work through for that entire year in our lives. Last year, I chose the word, “Hope”, because, well, as you can imagine, I can create opportunities to photograph outside was going through a time in my life where I was God simply blew the top off the box I had needing some. For the entire year, the word tried to put Him in last year, because let’s face “Hope”, showed up in some way, every day, it, even in our biggest imaginations, we still 1. CHURCH. either on a shirt someone was wearing, in my can’t fathom all of the exciting and amazing Join