On Giving It All Away Featuring Ashley Draper Sanchez

SHOW NOTES...You find the thing you love to do, and you learn about it, you go after it and that's what you do- that's what you're meant to do.I spent a lot of time in the Word and spent a lot of time figuring out that my identity is not defined by what I do, but who I am and who I am in Christ.On Photography:No matter how much technical skill you have it's not going to replace an artistic eye. Your skill doesn't always equal talent in your field. On Heroism:It challenged me to try to be that person myself to go from crisis to crisis and still maintain that sort of servant hood. It taught me to be a little more selfless.On Surrogacy: If we can name the reasons not to do something and they all have to do with fear, then to us, that's the red flag that we need to do it. Because we feel like our biggest growth spiritually as a couple and as a family happens when we go as deep out as we can possible get into the water. It was a lesson in teaching her how to fear less and for me how to learn how to be more cautious... sort of a coming together of different personalities. It's easy to say you're going to go deep, but then when you're there and in the fire...Those moments of doubt and you're in the deep and you cant touch the floor and your just treading water- its in those instances that you know that you have to depend on God. In the shallow water you can take care of yourself but in the deep you cant and that's when you know you need a savior. Being in the deep and having to rely on God to really just give you the strength for the final pushes. God gives you the amount of strength you need for every occasion. He gives you what you need for the season you're in. Not too much not too little. Everybody can stay int he shallow water and be safe and have a fine life, but your not going to understand the depth of who God is and How much He loves you and how much closer you can know who He is unless you go to the deep and you can know Him.LINKS:Find Ashley’s Photography here! Radiant ChurchAshley on Instagram