I CHOOSE TO BE BELIEVING! Mindy's Story I’m not sure why it is that I never believed that the important people in my life loved me. It isn’t that they treated me poorly or that they neglected me; they didn’t. But I can look back on my life and see a pattern of disbelief that influenced my choices in every aspect of my life from the classes I took at school to the people I dated. Still, the Lord blessed me. I married a generous, funny, over-the-top-talented guy who loved the gospel. He loved me, but I didn’t believe him. He brought with him some demons of his own to overcome, but it wasn’t until after he’d gotten entangled in devastating things that consumed him to the point that he took his own life that I could see clearly how my not believing him had damaged each of us and our relationship. Still, the Lord blessed me. As I’ve humbly searched, studied and responded to opportunities to learn, Heavenly Father has helped me to see that being believing is my choice, my responsibility. The burden of proof lies with me, not with God, family, friends, teachers, or anyone else. If I don’t choose to be believing, it doesn’t matter what others offer me in terms of love, nor does it matter how many truly lovable characteristics I may have - I’ll never see what I don’t first believe! So I choose, not once but always, to be BELIEVING-- believing in God’s love, believing in others’ love, believing in learning to love and in learning to feel loved. Mindy is our second BEAUTY we are celebrating!! How incredibly BEAUTIFUL is Mindy?!?! Mindy, you are so sweet, so kind, such a lovely presence and so soft spoken. I am AMAZED at your bravery, strength and how you have held on to the rod of the gospel all these years even after such a horrible tragedy!! You are the epitome of strength!! YOU ARE LOVED, SOOOO LOVED!! By God, by your family and by alllllllllllll of us!!!! I am so proud of you and how far you have come in BELIEVING you are someone incredible, wonderful, talented, sweet, kind, inspiring and BEAUTIFUL!!!! It was an honor to meet you, photograph you, hear your story and help you in your journey to believing God made YOU on purpose and for a purpose, and He doesn't make mistakes!! I am so proud to call you my friend, so blessed to have had the opportunity to photograph you and soooo thankful YOU were apart of this photo shoot / experience. This photo shoot would not have been as AMAZING & BEAUTIFUL without you, your story, your presence and your beauty!! MINDY, YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!! <3 Alexa Taylor-Jay Ogilvie Taylor Jay Photography It is CRAZY SCARY to put your story out there for the world to see, to talk about such hard things/times. But THIS woman is so strong, so courageous and is sharing HER story with the intent to help other women see themselves as God does. To help YOU on your journey to self-LOVING!! If her story, her courage and her heart touches you please let her know by commenting below!! WE LOVE YOU MINDY!!!! This photo shoot was a dual effort!! The other master photographer behind this photo shoot and idea is Kelsey Bailey Photography!! Please go 'like' her Facebook page >> https://www.facebook.com/KelseyBaileyPhoto/ and click here to view HER STUNNING PHOTOS of Mindy Johnson and all her Celebration of beauty photos as well from our shoot!! >> https://kelseybaileyphotography.weebly.com/celebration-of-beauty/i-choose-to-be-believing-mindys-story We had a master videographer documenting every little amazing, tender and BEAUTIFUL moment!! Please click here to see Shaun Schofield from DOZE Videos AMAZING BTS video and get excited to see allllllll the beautiful pictures, stories and the grand finale of throwing color COMING YOUR WAY!!!! Please go 'like' his Facebook page >> https://www.facebook.com/dozevideos/ View Shaun's AWESOME BTS video of our Celebration of Beauty project on his youtube.com channel Please click here to see: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8xniy6r68A Taylor Jay Photography - my Facebook page >> https://www.facebook.com/taylorjayphotography/ Here's ALLLL the details below to the why we are posting these women, their personal stories and their journey to no longer self-hating but SELF-LOVING!!!! This is an incredible and inspiring project and we can't wait to take y'all on this journey with us!! <3 <3 >> https://taylorjayphoto.weebly.com/celebration-of-…/the-intro LIKE.COMMENT.SHARE.ENJOY!! Please Like. Comment. Share. Tag. any woman you feel could benefit from Mindy's amazing, real and raw story!!!!
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