What a journey. “Trust the Journey” was always a saying I would hear. Well that Journey/ Detour equipped me with a passion I never expected. Last year I published my first Children’s Coloring and Activities. What God has in store will surprise you. Started with Faith.
📷 Day 6 of 30 — “The People Who Show Up”
When the headlines show what a community is going through, there’s often another story happening just outside the frame.
I remember documenting these people who came out to clean up their town.
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Sometimes we forget about the people quietly working to put things back together.
And maybe that’s worth remembering:
A community isn’t only defined by what happens to it. It’s also defined by the people who show up for it.
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No cameras following them. No speeches. No grand gestures.
Just people, showing up with cleaning supplies, giving their time, and taking care of the place they called home.
It’s easy to focus on what divides a community.
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📷 Day 4 of 30 — “My Constant”
Some things in life don’t need a lot of words.
This is Ozzwald. My best friend.
Through all the changes, the uncertainty, the places I’ve been and the roads still ahead…
He’s been my constant.
Sometimes peace isn’t a place you find.
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📷 Day 3 of 30 — The Things We Give Power To
A car—something someone may have worked hard to afford—completely destroyed.
And behind it?
The Pacific Ocean.
We spend so much of our lives chasing money, possessions, and things we fear losing.
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Idolatry creeps in and becomes a stronghold quickly.
Just don’t let the things you own become the things that own you.
Focus on God because everything we have and been provided are HIS. We are just the stewards.
So Steward well.
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Yet so much of it can disappear in an instant.
Then you stand in front of something like the ocean and realize how small the things we give so much power to can become.
Enjoy what you have. Work hard. Build a life.
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Day 2 of 30: “Photo a Day” 📷
“This Life at What Cost”
The mountains. The ocean. Views like Malibu Canyon.
I was wrestling with a question I couldn’t ignore anymore: At what cost?
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Emotional because sometimes the thing you love and the thing you’re meant to do aren’t the same thing.
Sometimes you have to let go of a view you love to find what’s waiting beyond it.
New to the Vegas desert—to anyone who restarted their life: when did it feel like home? (3/3)
There are moments when we have to ask, God… “If Not Here Where”?
Sometimes the answer isn’t NO.
Sometimes it’s:
Not Yet…
Not Here…
Not Her….
Not Yet…..
If You want me to leave, let me know. (2/3)
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📸 A Photo a Day — 30 Days
Day 1 of 30. 📸
A photo a day for the next 30 days.
Some beautiful. Some sad. Some eerie. Some that make you wonder about the story behind them.
This is one of those.
What do you see?
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Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!
A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
Yes, created by God.
Did God create everything? - a professor asked.
"Yes, sir," replied the student.
The professor asked:
If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
Can I ask you a question, professor?
"Of course," replied the professor.
A student got up and asked:
Professor, is cold a thing?
What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:
Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees
Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature.
Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness.
We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
Sir. does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.
To this, the student answered:
Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light.
The student's name was Albert Einstein.
@ThoughtCrimes80 It’s remarkable how a state that has its values and culture in the Mountains and on the Ranches ends up like this. Denver has ruined one of the most beautiful states in the US and the politicians act like they don’t know the Heritage and History of this state.