A Gratitude Journal of Beautiful People and Being Featured

You may think that this post is one week late but in my defense, we gotta be thankful every day. We need to list things that we are grateful for every day.

This past one week has been amazing. It is a short week but I still feel that time flies by way too fast. Earlier this week, exhausted from our weekend trip, I sat down and wrote my heart out and this was the summary of it: I pray for the courage to innovate and wisdom not to move too fast or too far. In the last two and a half months that we are here, I have been stepping through open doors that I was unsure of but with peace in my heart, I just trusted and walked. There were nights that I thought I hyperventilated from fear. But then, I would open my journal and read through the decision making process once again and know that I am in good hands. All my life, I have been walking away from risk. If it’s a risk and fear grips my heart, I will turn 180 degrees without letting dreams and thoughts give their reasoning and possibilities first. At the end of last year, I was convicted to walk towards fear and embrace it as a good old friend. And after nine months of 2012, I started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Wait, you say. So you didn’t know where you are going at the beginning? Well, not really. I have a dream and I have goals. Oh, wayyy too many goals actually. But as I worked through them, day in and day out, the middle and end points started to shift. And I am quite excited so far. That is actually an understatement, I am very excited. When I am excited, I move fast, really fast. I can work 14 hours a day straight, sleep for 5 hours and get going again. Nonstop. That was why, earlier this week, I slowed down and started praying for wisdom not to move too fast or too far. I need to gain control of where this is going and see the big picture once again. I need to filter opportunities. Yes, I do. We are all given 24 hours a day and we have a say of where we are going to invest those hours in. If you have been investing those hours (or even an hour of it) into the direction that you are not heading for, I challenge you to stop and reflect. If you let those hours slip out of your hands, they are forever gone. All money in this world can’t get them back. You can re-do or make up for it, of course, but that requires even more hours! So, be wise.

Last week, we had the priviledge to spend three days with two beautiful families in the lake of Muskoka. I am grateful for them. I am thankful that in this one life that we have: we love what we do and we do what we love. It sounds cliche but a couple things went wrong during the trip and I thought it would be the end of it. It wasn’t. We all pushed through and in the end, we won’t trade the world for the experience of it. For this life that we got to do together, to meet beautiful people who turned our relationship from client-vendor to friend-family, no word can describe our feeling of thankfulness. When you love what you do and you do what you love, all things can go wrong in your life but you still gain a lot from it. You keep the purpose in your heart and you walk with what you have to end the process with no compromise of delivering the best of yourselves. Thank you, Erika and Marcel, for trusting us to shoot from the heart.

This week, I had a long lunch with this girl. I have followed her work for a month now, read all her blog entries and enjoyed the beauty of her work. Meeting her is a whole different story. She is one of the persons with the kindest heart I have ever met. And with the most adventurous heart, I have shared my dream with. I have never found anyone who spoke my mind in terms of being bornt, lived and died in different places in the world. To experience cultures and visit foreign lands as much as we can and gain friends and the valuable life experiences from them. I adore her for having every thing right in her mind and in her life. I know she is going to places with her work, her dream and her passion. I am so glad we met at this season of our lives and stand together for what we believe in. So grateful to be inspired and gain friendship from a random DWF article. Vancouver and BC brides, (this is a hint) to hunt her down for her availability to document your day and your life starting the end of next summer! 😉

And this girl, she is just lovely. Way too lovely. We have never met in person but exchange emails like high school bestfriends. Thank you, Ashley, for cheering on us, through the highs and the lows. Your emails never fail to make me smile. You always said you ramble, but you have put things together in the right places in our business and our lives. I wished to fly to Hawaii at this moment and hug you for a really reallyyyyy long time. Does that sound creepy? It may. But I am so grateful that we crosspath and I will not trade the world for our “late night” thoughts. To pray fervently on everything and have faith in everything, you’re my hero.

This starts to look like my journal. I need to stop before revealing too much. And give away too much love. One last thing (I promise, this is going to end in less than 30 seconds). This morning, the project that is dear to our heart got featured on Tutu&Fru. It’s a milestone for us. Our first project and our first feature. Here is to many many more to come.

~Love,

Jenn~

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