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NEW BLOG!
Hey everyone! If interested in some more structural content from me check out/ follow my other blog: michellepenam.tumblr.com I'll be posting more there from now on. Have a beautiful day!
I hope you have the courage to pursue someone who is worth pursuing, and not someone who is convenient. Convenience is impatience disguised as your desires, you are worth more than what time has told you, you are worthy of finding someone who will wait for you; don’t settle for what is easy, settle for what is good.
T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via awelltraveledwoman)
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
Charles Spurgeon (via revelation19)
For today, but not just today.
God will wreck your plans when He sees that your plans are about to wreck you.
(via lipstick-bullet)
romance: saying “i do” on top of a mountain.
I just wanted to let you know
I talked to God last night.
He didn’t say much,
And neither did I.
But what words we did say
Gave me such small hope,
That even a twice prodigal son
Can still find a way home.
The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
F. Chan, Crazy Love (via themountainlaurel)
Jon Foreman - Deep in Your Eyes
This song man.
Have you forgotten the power of His sacrifice? Have you forgotten the validity of His promises? Have you forgotten the security of salvation? Have you lost sight of all this beautiful truth that’s supposed to be enveloping your fears and insecurities with peace and full assurance that He is who He says He is regardless of the darkness you see within yourself. He sees it too, and He didn’t flinch at the sight. He didn’t go anywhere. So let the gratitude fill you to the brim and know that you weren’t ever expected to pretend and you have no reason to hide. If you’ve got darkness, stop wasting your time trying to mask and manage its presence. Did you look around and believe that you might be the only one with things you’re ashamed of? Who taught you to hide like your father Adam? Don’t you remember how God called out for Him? Who told you to pretend you’re something you’re not? The cross has made a way for you to not cower like Adam. Who told you this is about you? This is about God—His power, His love, His plan, and His redemption. Did you forget that your only hope is in the light that came for you and came after you? Stop hiding from your only hope. Invite the light in and let it flood your darkness. Its persistence dissolves once it’s confronted by light. Don’t defend the manifestations of your old self. Invite the light to fill its place. There’s no reason to guard the corruption that has nothing to offer you but loneliness and fear. Make provisions for it in one area and it will make no apologies when it threatens the rest of you. Willingly expose the darkness you’ve hidden in your corners. You don’t have it under control if it’s controlling you, and if you’re not being honest about its presence in your life, it is surely controlling you. It will forfeit its power the instant it’s exposed, so turn the light on and trust the character and promises of God who has claimed those corners as His own. He’s not afraid of your condition. Why are you?
LB, Peace: Room & Time (via yesdarlingido)
As I've had much more free time these past few days, I've done what any other quote un quote 23 year old does, I go on Netflix. Now, I'm a sucker for a good documentary but every now and then a girl needs to shed a tear or two with a good romance. I tried to ward away from the typical Nicholas Sparks cliche films so I decided on an obvious low budget "Faith and Spirituality" film. You know, hoping it would be somewhat of a A Walk to Remember kind of feel to it. To get to the point, I watched not one but four faith based romance movies and I came to the conclusion that either 1) I'm totally NOT what a Christian girl is or 2) People have this set standard of what a Christian girl is and then there's always option 3) They should have just stopped at A Walk to Remember.... I'll get to that point later. Let's be real, when I watch these movies the Christian girl is this humbly soft spoken, always extremely gorgeous, casual clothes wearing, has her life together woman who always seems to have a smile on her face with no care in the world..... Really? Because I'm more of a sometimes I lose my temper, go all out with makeup, dress gaudy for special occasions, all while having some really bad days when I just feel like crying because let's face it I'm a human being with loads of emotions.... And to make matters worse I have resting "B" face. It's both option 1 & 2 that have made me feel like I wasn't raising to this standard of what being a Christian woman is, or how she acts, what she has, or what she looks like. I've blamed genetics, emotions, and financial status as the reason I haven't gotten the bad boy to turn Godly, have had the "hot" guy in town fall in love with me, or the reason my church isn't filled with tons of cool people who potluck, or the reason my family isn't perfect. These ideals are straight bogus. At least in A Walk To Remember Jamie rebels a bit and tells her dad she's in love and doesn't care what he thinks, when she's upset at Landon when he uses her, or calls out the bully with a remark... That's closer to myself than these unrealistic representations of what a Godly woman is in the other films I've watched. Sure, a Godly woman can be all of those good things, but she's also the bad things. She's the woman who has her fair share of doubts and fears, she's the woman who doesn't feel beautiful all of the time, the woman who one day might find herself drifted a bit from God, and the woman who needs Godly men and people in general to stop having these notions of what she really is and not be surprised to find that she's not an actress following a poorly depicted script, but rather a woman who guides herself from a verse in proverbs and the Word of God.... All while knowing that it's possible to fall short and that life doesn't have the ability for retakes.
I deserved better than what you gave me.
Things I wish I could tell you (via eatyourpie)
Me in a couple of days....
I see an old abandoned home. There's a sign on the front door that reads "Trespassers will be prosecuted" but like any normal human I'm overwhelmed with a rebellious curiosity to enter through those walls again, and I do. I walk through what used to be a home with white walls waiting to be primed and painted, floors in need of things to sustain, and empty spaces longed to be filled. All I see now are empty damaged holes within four walls, plagued with lead and torn foundations, and I tell myself, at the sight of the damage....that I won't intrude again. I can't help but think sometimes how incredible the human brain is when you can go days, months, and even years without a single memory of something you've locked away only to have something trigger inside to remind you of what you once were. Just like that home, I once had this pure mentality and I wanted to fill it up with all the best things that life could ever offer, until I decided to make a decision to let a corrupted mind do it instead and have sweet innocence turn to stain and damage. That's the analogy I would use, the abandoned home, as for people who give their heart to someone who God has said over and over "IS NOT FOR YOU". It's been a long road to recovery these past eight years from dating outside of what God had planned for me. It's taken medication, family, friends, sleepless nights, crying myself to sleep for two straight years, hospital visits, specialized doctors, LOTS OF PRAYER, and unfortunately so many hurtful words toward Jesus to be where I am today. I used to be asked everyday to say how much in percentage do I feel like my "normal happy self" again, you know before the damaging relationship. There were days when I said I feel 20% like my normal self, 30%, 70%, etc and it's taken three years to be able to say a number in the 90s. It was THAT bad. To everyone who might say how could I have allowed someone to have affected me so much, don't I have my own sense of being, just move on it's over with.... Well no, that's exactly the point the enemy tries to make. Satan wraps you up so far into an unequally yoked person that it seems like odd things are a norm. It took me years to become my own person again and I'm still being transformed into someone better than I used to be before "normal happy self" again. I have found that many people like companionship, and that many times it's confused with LOVE. There's a fine line between knowing if someone truly loves you, or if you believe that simply the presence of a person is what God wants for your life. Don't be with someone simply for the act of 'being with someone'. Just like an old abandoned home with a NO TRESPASSING sign, is a relationship without God as the center. You go in with these expectations of what you wanted only to be reminded that what's really there within the old walls doesn't fill voids, it only leaves destructed emotions, mentalities, things that only continue to prosecute you if you keep going back to something that can't be fixed. Move on, as I have and know that there might be a long road ahead but God is waiting at a new door, and only you hold the key. Love is waiting.
Photography by Kellie Kano
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I know in the scope of things in life, tumblr doesn’t weigh too heavy in importance but I am pretty grateful for the community it creates and its support and appreciation for beautiful things, including some of my work.
Can’t wait to shoot this couple’s wedding in little over a month!