March 8, 2007

• Nathan & Jan
  

  Where there is love there is life.   - Mahatma Gandhi

   

  

   

  

  

  Where o’
  where is Steve?  Well I must say I’ve been
  very preoccupied with interviews, work, traveling to the midwest for a close
  friends wedding! =) Yes, I did say Wedding but before you jump all over this
  post I’ll tell you before hand that I wasn’t a wedding photographer there nor
  was I able to take many photos from the wedding day.  It’s a little
  difficult to do that when you are in the wedding, haha.  Anyways, I was
  honored and extremely joyed to be apart of their life and especially their
  special wedding day.  Congratulations to Nathan & Jan Cole the
  newlyweds! =)  Since the wedding was held in Indianapolis, Indiana…it was indeed very cold. 
  During our stay there, Jan’s (Nathan’s Wife) friend Eugene opened his house to
  us during out stay there and he was most hospitable and I’ve never felt so
  welcomed and at home at any ones place especially meeting the guy for the first
  time.  I felt as if I knew the guy for years and I felt so at ease and so
  comfortable.  You know how there are times where you stay at someone place
  and its just sort of a little uneasy, not that the person didn’t want you there
  but as if you might be overstaying your visit sort of feeling.  Never the
  less I was most grateful and humbled by his hospitality.  Keep Nate & Jan in your prayers as they went back to Laos and as they transition as a couple!  They have a long travel ahead of them as well as Nate’s family, pray for provision and that the Lord will sustain them! 
  

  The wedding
  day was set on March 3rd, 2007 and it was probably one of the most
  at ease and joyful weddings I’ve been to, not that other weddings I’ve been to
  weren’t.  There was just something special about this wedding.  Maybe
  it was witnessing a close friend of mine marrying the woman of his dreams or
  was it something more? The idea that God can draw people from all
  sorts of location to one place was simply amazing.  Beyond the beauty of
  the church and all the decorations and accents of a wedding what really caught
  my eye was seeing how God draws amazing people together and binds them by the
  love of two people into one big picture.  Drawing family from all over the
  US and Laos.  Obviously I was from California but the wedding had family from Oregon, Indiana, Laos, Nebraska and I might be missing a couple
  others but I was just stunned by the Unity of this day.  The Lord paves
  amazing paths for people and I must say Nathan and Jan have taken that path of
  faith and the Lord has definitely blessed them both and everyone in their
  family.  What also strikes me is both wedding parties (bride and groom)
  had only known each other about a week prior to the wedding and witnessing how
  well everyone connected just blew me away.  It was as if they had known each other for quite sometime.  I remember during the wedding
  rehearsal dinner where I saw Nate’s father and Jan’s father conversing on the stairway and it brought a smile to my face to see how the
  Lord brings people together regardless of social economic backgrounds,
  lifestyles, cultural background or whatever differences there might be. 
  

  On top of
  all that Nathan got all the grooms men some wild gifts and if I feel daring
  enough I’ll post a pic of it later but some of you might freak out haha. 
  I happen to love the gift and its probably the craziest gift I’ve ever received
  from anyone.  But thats Nathan for you.  Junshien, delivered a
  awesome toast at the wedding, I was so proud of him! =) woohoo! 
  

  Sadly, I
  don’t have any pictures of Indianapolis because I didn’t have much of an
  opportunity to explore the city itself.  From my observations though, it’s
  very flat (hahah) and the homes there are very different in terms of architecture from California or any place I’ve been to on the
  west coast.  But I like it, honestly I wish I could give it more credit
  other than the Indianapolis 500, Butler College or The Colts but thats all I really know about the state! haha.  Would I go back, sure why not! =)  O and the snow is beautiful there during this time of the year.  After the wedding reception, it snowed and it had to be one of the most elegant and beautiful snow falls I’ve seen.  It was like a scene from a movie as you look out the window to see the snow gently fall to the ground!

  This weekend is the Scott Robert Mentor and Photo Workshop, I am stoked!
  

  I Corinthians 13
  Love is
  patient;  love is kind.
  Love is not envious or boastful or
  arrogant or rude.  
  It does not insist on its own way: it is not irritable or resentful; 
  it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in truth.
  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
  things.  
  And now faith, hope, and love abide, 
  and the greatest of these is love.

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