Happy Sunday lovelies!

Wow, so today’s is quite personal, but I am applying to TMD!

I began a girl’s Bible study with 3 of my students whom I teach dance, and have been for the past 3 years or so. I saw the need to be a positive role model in these girls lives early last year, but didn’t really listen to God’s calling until late in the new dance season. Sometime around October or November, I felt a {very} strong calling to finally get over myself and my insecurities, and jump in and do something I had never done before.

We are using the book Girl’s of Grace since it was recommended to me from a very close friend. It is geared towards girls their age and addresses different aspects of those horrible high school years, that I personally do not miss at all! We meet once a week usually at the husband’s restaurant after school and discuss that weeks chapter. We are about 5 weeks in, but I am realizing that this Bible study is not only for them, its for me too. I of course do the week’s reading and answer the questions just as they do so I can lead our discussions. And this weeks chapter was spot on, and really hit home for me!

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity” 1 Timothy 4:12

For whatever reason, I have always struggled with my age. (I know when I am older, I’ll be wishing I had never “wished” I was older), but I have always felt people don’t think I am capable of things simply because I “look like I’m 12”. I have actually said this multiple times over the past few years of business, and I really have no idea why I care or why it should matter.

Even when K and I got married {I was 19} I always worried that people looked at us and thought, “they’ll never make it because they got married too young”. WHY? Who makes the rules of what age is appropriate to start  and run a business, get married,  or even start a family. The answer, no one.

I can not help but reflect on where and what God has brought me through in my short 3 years of business, and ponder where He will continue to take me.

I started my business at the young age of 22, and I want to scream and jump up and down when I think about everything that God has prepared me for and He has attained through me. I have always set specific goals to attain, and continue to do so as it gives me something to strive for. One of my goals was to enter the Houston market, with that simple goal of 1 or 2 weddings that I set in 2011, I had nine weddings in Houston last year. Nine!! Are you serious! Glory be to God!

And 2013 has many more weddings planned in Houston’s TOP wedding venues such as 3 at Chateau Cocomar, La Colombe D’ior, Hotel Zaza, and the House of Blues to name a few!

I’ve even been named as one of the preferred vendors at my very favorite venue, Chateau Cocomar. Oh my goodness! I am only 25!

See, thats what crazy awesome about God, He answers our prayers (sometimes not in the way we pray for Him to, but He still answers them) and He does so on a scale that is unimaginable to us. I know God has equipped me with certain talents and passions, and it is a daily goal to tell the world about every single one of them and to share that God is good y’all!

After only 3 years in the wedding business, with no formal training with floral or design- just identifying and doing what sets my heart on fire, and certainly no business degree. I am not building just a business, but a brand that represents a timelessness and passion for who and what I love most.

No more holding back my friends, its on.

My heart is on fire for God, and you’re going to hear about it. Simply because He is the only reason I have Tamara Menges Designs, a husband who loves God as much as I do, an amazing marriage, the opportunity to minister to young girls, and most importantly the daily opportunity to be a steward for Him, and give Him the chance to shine through me in all that I do!

This is the legacy I want to leave behind.

And again,

“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity” 1 Timothy 4:12

Oh happy day y’all!

xoxo, Tamara