Tonight I took a break from the couch by taking my camera to the theatre rehearsal halls downtown to take 30 head shots of the cast of Seussical. By the time I was finished, I had actually taken about 200 pictures as each actor got to choose which one they wanted in the program. Randy, the Managing Director for the theatre, was holding one of the lights and we had a line of people waiting their turn. I never felt so much like a professional photographer as I did tonight. Soon I’ll be going to the theatre to take some pictures of them in rehearsal. For those of you who don’t know, I’m now doing the photography for the Pentacle Theatre. It’s a volunteer gig but I’m enjoying it and I get an add for photography in the Seussical program.
As I’ve been sick, at times I have felt Jesus by my side holding my hand and just being being beside me while I’m coughing or lying on the couch. It’s at times like this when I don’t feel up to doing a lot I feel his love the most. Knowing he loves me as much as he ever does when I am lying still, gives me great peace. If he loves me in times like this, how great his love must be! Knowing I have that love no matter what will come, either from within or without, knowing he is there beside me through thick and thin, deepens my trust in him to the level of bedrock. I don’t have to “perform” or be perfect. I can just be myself and be free. I am loved.
365-09 #47