Hey friends,
How can I begin to explain what is happening here? Well, it’s actually kinda easy.
I have never, ever, been this inspired in my entire life to be a better artist or photographer. Walking around in London, being able to free my mind and heart, seeing and soaking in the city, taking photos, meeting random people and hanging out with them and simply just being here is so captivating. The first day, 3 friends and I went to the city of London, since we are staying outside of it, and just went to explore. There are some riots going on right now because of the G20 conference. So we were so excited and curious to see what was going on. Since we are all adventurous and danger makes us excited, we wanted to try to take some photos of the riots. But, unfortunately, they all died down by the time we got to London. If we were here 2 days earlier we would’ve seen the climax of them. After that, we went to pubs, had fish and chips, walked around the city and just took fun photos of us being kids. Very rad and simply inspiring.
The 2nd day, today, we had team meetings all day. Meetings about our futures as artists and photographers. What God wants us to do with our ministry, Pick-A-Pocket. What we can do, as youth, to live out Gods dreams. It was a day long meeting. Time to all sit around, individually share our dreams and personal goals in life, and what we expect out of this retreat in London. This time was so freeing. My heart felt like it had a 50 pound weight on it taken off once I shared my heart to a group of 30. Being filled with inspiration and direction after being here for 2 days, I was needing some time to process and seriously think about my future as a photographer. It was scary, it was intense, but so much more colorful than I could have ever expected it to be. I still feel a mysterious weight on my heart. A feeling like something pinnacle is about to happen to my life, to all of our lives here in London. That God is going to simply ask something of us on this trip, and we have the choice to say “yes” or “no.” We have the choice to deny Gods dreams for our lives and walk away, or to take up the cross and walk. It’s such a scary lifestyle to live as a Christian. I realize this everyday. Knowing that I live to die. I live to deny myself and give up everything I have every single day. Who would live a life like this? Only the radicals, only the crazy people. But I have not yet found a better, fulfilling lifestyle than this. Knowing that when I deny myself and my wants, give up everyone and everything I know to follow God, I receive the best results for my life. It’s amazing and unexplainable with words. It’s actions. It’s a lifestyle.
This is what I’m experiencing right now in London.
Prayer Requests :
+ More clarity and direction over my life as an artist
+ More “want” to deny everything I know to follow Him
+ More inspiration to become the best photographer that I can be
With love from the Everlasting,
Taylor Pool
