I had the absolute blessing of photographing this beautiful family. After reading the testimony I was moved to tears by the joy of God's glory in their lives.

Their journey is a powerful reminder that God is not finished writing our stories. He continues to pour out blessings beyond what we can ask or imagine.

Below is Celeste's answered prayer and testimony — a story of how God restored her life into something more beautiful than she ever dreamed.

Praise be to Jesus!

"When I look at these pictures of my family it brings me so much joy. Joy to see us all as one, joy to see our smiling faces, and joy to finally be THAT family who gets to take family photos all in matching outfits, holding hands with great big smiles. These pictures bring me so much joy because it’s also something that I, at one time, thought would never be. There was a time, when it was just my beautiful daughter and I, when I almost gave up on the family idea. One day I decided to sit and pray for the man, the husband, and the type of dad I would want for my daughter and kids to come. I will never forget sitting on my living room floor rattling off all these things to God and once I was done I chuckled to myself thinking, “Yeah right, like I’ll get all those things.” But people say to ask God, even if it’s a big ask, so I did. Today I have that answered prayer. It’s amazing to see my family who was picked, chosen by God to be a family. God knew what He was doing when He heard my prayer. I am grateful for God’s goodness of bringing this family together."