This spring, I developed a new found love for poetry and prose. I love how poets get right to the point and do so in the most beautiful way. You are immediately immersed in their words and it always feels that they are looking you right in the eye and speaking directly to you. I have especially enjoyed Morgan Harper Nichols powerful words. Here I paired her words with one of my photographs and I feel they were meant to be.

may you always be the one
who sees the light in the little things
when the world is in a rush around you
may you be the one who stops to notice
where the hope gets through.

and years from now,
when you have grown up
and the world has changed,
I hope glorious light
finds you all the same.

for this road will not be easy
but you are free to keep traveling, anyway.
trusting that even your most uncertain moments
are wrapped in endless, boundless, grace.

and what is grace?
it is unmerited favor,
the faithful rhythm you cannot see
saying, “you do not always have to explain why or how
you’re seeing the light in the little things.”

simply trust
believe.
@morganharpernichols