Today i wrote to you.

-k

I did a shoot for the launch of Prophetik Clothing at Ivey On Main.

great day with fabulous people.

katherinemez.com

just a few for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks to:

susana

nathan

russ

megan of ivey on main

jeff of prophetik

&

 my dearest jordan. 

How do i do it?

how do i get to where i want to be?

or is it about being where i am at now?

i just want to be great.

Father, hear me please.

kurthalsey.com

amazing artist.

enjoy.

I work and live in a town that is made up of romantic and dream like historic buildings. Buildings that make you feel as if you were in a movie, where anything and everything is possible.

I often see couples walking about hand in hand, sitting on benches embraced so beautifully as if no one else could see them, giving sweet glances to each other as they trace their hands in and out of the crowds….and its intriguing. I often wonder to myself…. Are they soul mates? Am i witnessing a miracle? Am i possibly standing in the midst of beauty?

Soul Mates.

We hear the word, but does it actually exist? Is there such a phenomenon of one soul being perfectly made for another? Two souls made to be as one?

I’d like to believe so.

The truth is i am a firm believer in it and will settle for nothing less. But the world likes to argue with me otherwise, like so many of us. And for a long time i lost sight of what i had always wish, hoped, dreamed and prayed for… My very own soul mate.

I think where a lot of us go wrong in the whole soul mate idea, is that we start off thinking it isnt possible, it will never happen, or at least it will never happen to us…. and we settle. Time and time again we forget that we are created for nothing but the best and to have nothing less then what God has perfectly designed for us. Even a soul mate.

Why is it always so easy for us to sell ourselves short of what we are ordained and ment for? Which is God’s perfect plan for our lives. A plan that is hardly ever easy but somehow is more rewarding and fulfilling then anything we could ever imagine.

So why should we settle?

Why should we allow the great to pass us by? 

 We shouldnt and we dont have too.

When i was 14 years old i created this list of every quality i ever wanted (up to that point) of my soul mate. Through the years i have revised and added and taken things off, but then i realized that…the original list i wrote was from a heart without settle, it was made from a heart of hope that this person, while being totally and completely made up and beyond what any one person could amount to…. did actually exist. I had been settling for the easy and the comfortable yet i was created for the great and the great was created for me. What i spent the past few years trying to rethink and revise was really what God had intended for me in the first place. The idea of a soul mate that was “beyond me and beyond understanding” that i thought was too much and not realistic, was actually the right thing for me in the first place . As we get older we somehow fall into the thinking that we have to be practical and throw out all the dreams and hopes of something almost magical, because the “real world” tells us its not real, its not a possibility, its not for us….. and we settle. 

God is too mighty and too big of a God for us to settle with little, he made our hearts and minds and souls for the big picture, bigger then even our imagination allows.

We were made to dream and hope and pray for things “beyond us and beyond understanding”. To dream big dreams and to hope and live for moments that are bigger then us. Moments that seem too good to be true. Moments and things like: rocks at the window in the middle of the night, kissing in the rain, conversations that last till the wee hours of the morning, heart aching connection that makes you feel alive, butterflies in your stomach,  a best friend, someone that gets you and understands you, someone that inspires you and makes you want to be better, a love that surpasses understanding, a soul mate.  (a man that loves God, with strong hands, blue eyes, a heart of gold and a soul so beautiful you can hardly breathe.) - ‘Katherine’s Soul Mate List / age 14.’ 

Why should we not all have the white knight and the damsel? Why should we settle for the cheap novel when we can have the epic fairy tale? Why should we allow anything less then what we have always dreamed of?

Why should we not have the best love story ever written?

Why should we settle for anything less then our Soul Mate?

 i wont.

i just want to scream.

It constantly amazes me that i go through times in my life where i think i can do it alone.

I can handle everything, and anything by myself! And it is never until sometime later when i am knee deep in a gobalty gook mess of things that i ask myself the question…

WHY DO I EVER THINK I CAN DO THIS ALONE?

Because the truth is i cant.

I am physically, mentally, and spiritually not capable.  And its humbling ya know, to know i have God that loves me enough to make it where i can’t and don’t want to not have him by my side through the day to day.

I feel as if everytime i get to this point where I ask myself “why do i ever think i can do this alone”, God is just smiling and giving a supporting yet personal chuckle, as if to say “now you got it kid”. 

He amazes me ya know… God. He amazes me.

How he can love me and love me and and keep on loving me and even when i am the most undeserving he is still there for me. Continually being my provider, my counselor, and my successor. Like i said, he amazes me and i am so grateful to serve such a merciful and gracious God.

I stand in awe.

-k

Today i awoke early for work. On the days that i have to wake up especially early i treat my self to the delectable taste of Starbucks.

I came in like any other time and sat my bag down in one of those comfy chairs. Which are so comfy, but yet freak me at when i think of all the things and people that have been in the chair before me. Never the less the comfy chair i chose. So i sat my things down and walked over to stand in line. I zoned out for a brief moment on the the sight of the marble loaf looking at me through the glass with its tasty swirly goodness. It was at that moment of divinity in which i felt a slight breathing upon my shoulder. With a jolted face i turned around to see a woman i had never before seen standing next to me… let me rephrase, standing almost on top of me. There she was peering in to the same glass dessert case, standing so close i could feel her faint toothpaste laden breath breathing down on my like fire from a dragon. There she was with her orangey hair strew every which way, waiting in line for her first cup of nectar in which i am sure she lives to have each morning. I bet she rolls out of bed and claws her way to this very coffee shop every day, not being able to function until she has had her “double shot with energy” ..i heard her order. There she was alright.

The Close Stander.

The Close Stander is what i like to call them. They are the people who if you knew them and they were standing that close it would be no big deal, because there is the friendship factor there to make the proximity of the distance of which they are standing so close to you, okay. There is a friend distance, that says “yeah we are hanging together”, “im with her or him”, kinda thing. But then there’s The Close Stander. The person you know nothing of, have never even glimpsed them in your little eye ever before in your life, you know them not… and there they are standing in the friend proximity, to close for comfort, breathing valiantly down your neck. 

Are these people constantly not wearing glasses to see the depth of field in which they are violating? Or are they merely depth impaired? Is it possible they might simply be oblivious? They just have no idea where to stand? In fact, they have never known?

Is it possible to be born a Close Stander? 

In my discomfort i moved slightly to my left in order to relieve my self from the awkwardness that The Close Stander had put me in. Only to have her move forward right back to where she was… in the UNcomfort zone. I finally made my way to the cashier where i quickly paid for my lovely marble loaf and iced coffee and made my way back to my seat. I guess the encounter with The Close Stander was a small price to pay for the sublime perfection of marble loaf, iced coffee and a comfy chair.

-k

thanks jessdarling!

I did a shoot a few weeks ago for this new christian band coming out.

They are amazing people and it was the biggest pleasure getting to know them and take their pictures.

Keep and eye out for Morning Will Break.

Styling and Photography by: Katherine Mez with Call Me Clementine Company

Makeup & Hair by: Christine James with Eye Candy

Thanks to Lyndsy Lahrman for being the backbone of the day.

Edits by: Daley Hake

Clothing was courtesy of:

Ivey Boutique of Historic Franklin  

V4Men of Cool Springs

-K. Mez