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Recent Posts From Blog:

Heaven To-Do 06/27/2020
My Mom. The Gifts. 05/09/2020
Interview: Everyday Faith 04/23/2020
It Feels So Big… 03/07/2020
Bike Religion 02/14/2020
It’s In You 01/17/2020
Pause is Preparation. 10/30/2019
Soft Faith 09/20/2019
Stay True to Your Faith 08/23/2019
Moving Faith 07/26/2019

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Encouraging others to seek and see faith in everyday life. Original photography by Amy Bretall with features.

“I think I can, I think I can...”

“I think I can, I think I can...”

From an idea. And many steps later came a Solo Exh

From an idea. And many steps later came a Solo Exhibition featuring my photography at a recognized art gallery destination, one year ago, 7/5/19.

It started when on a cultural & humanitarian delegation to Cuba in 2015, I met a young girl living there. Inspired to help her, I needed a product to sell. Idea: use some of my iPhone photos and turn them into cards. As my faith grew, and as I took steps of faith, the idea expanded.🦋

Three years later, a Solo Exhibition at KC Crossroads Arts District First Friday’s at Beggars Table. I had photos from all my collections shown: Rural, Cuba, Faith and the “Everyday Cross”.

Little steps add up over time. Make your idea happen. Ideas are easy. Execution is work. It takes discipline and perseverance. ⏳

I missed getting photos of all my friends who came by! It was busy! Touched by all the show of support!

The freedom of faith.

The freedom of faith.

Sometimes You Just Are. The right fit. The right

Sometimes You Just Are.

The right fit. The right person. For the right reason. In the right time of life. God placed You. 🌍

I think of my Sweet Jean, my adopted grandmother & dear friend for 20+ years. I was FOR HER. And she was FOR ME. For the time it lasted (she’s been gone 4 years now). And I am GRATEFUL.🦋

Hoping you have a Sweet Jean, or someone like a Sweet Jean, in your life. Age doesn’t matter. We were 36 years difference.

Love Does. Love Is. Love LIVES. 💗

During times of challenge or craziness in the world I have FAITH because I know how Jean was brought into my life. The miracle of placement and TIMING. 20 years later I got it. †

Photo from 2011.

One year ago...I was preparing for a gallery show.

One year ago...I was preparing for a gallery show...a featured exhibition of my photography in the KC Arts District First Fridays.

What a difference one year makes. Virtual is just not the same.

Because faith is in the every day. It’s how you

Because faith is in the every day. It’s how you see it. It’s how you find it. Thank you @trina_gt for sharing this everyday cross!

The cross on stage with the Kansas City landscape.

The cross on stage with the Kansas City landscape. Taking a stand. Stand in your faith.

This is where I met my Sweet Jean, dear friend and

This is where I met my Sweet Jean, dear friend and adopted grandmother, at Mercantile Bank in Springfield, Missouri, 1995, my first job out of college, working as an HR Rep. Jean was 68 and I was 23.

For over 20 years we were together. She’s been gone 4 years today. I’m still so in love with her because memories live. 💗

I found my voice writing about Jean, seeing her health decline and being up-close caring for her, I wrote to express my love. She never married nor had kids, and God knew I would fill the gap, 20+ years later. 🙌

That’s the power of God. † Or the power of the universe depending on your beliefs.

First photos are 2 original Polaroid photos. Taken in 1995 (when I had short hair, for a short time). Blog link post in Bio- About Sweet Jean.

Somewhere under the rainbow...Thank you Jennifer B

Somewhere under the rainbow...Thank you Jennifer B. for sharing this photo you took yesterday! The little cross showing up!

Look up. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Look up at the heavens an

Look up.
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“Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.” Job‬ ‭35:5‬

Garden Harvest. Such beauty found here. Taking del

Garden Harvest. Such beauty found here. Taking delight in the colors and growth, from my parent’s garden.

You know God’s handiwork is here: from seed to bloom to fruit. Eating from your own land. It does takes work, dedication to tending, watering and nurturing.

My parents have always had a garden and it’s been a blessing to grow up with fresh produce and watch the harvest process. Lettuce, spinach, asparagus, zucchini, cucumbers, cantaloupe, green beans, okra, beets, turnips, tomatoes, onions, rhubarb....the seasons of output.

Aren’t the little cucumbers surrounded by yellow blossoms just adorable? The beauty of beets! Squash blossoms.
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“I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”
‭‭John‬ ‭4:35‬

Because one day is not enough. Then and Now. And A

Because one day is not enough. Then and Now. And Always.

Remembering this everyday cross from spirit-filled

Remembering this everyday cross from spirit-filled @lorijeanwhitaker. Thank you! “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your ❤️.” Jeremiah 29:13

Then and Now. My Dad! Love this photo with my Dad

Then and Now. My Dad!

Love this photo with my Dad as young girls. I’m so thankful for my father’s presence. Then and now. An Always.

Yesterday I had the idea to take a photo on the front steps for a Then and Now, based on this photo. Will work on the finer points another time when we are all together with my sister.

Then: Photo from mid 70’s. My sister L, me R. Now: June 20, 2020.

“If you get knocked down in life, make sure you

“If you get knocked down in life, make sure you land on your back. Because if you can LOOK up, you can GET up.” -Les Brown

Words matter. Keep looking up and even when you do

Words matter. Keep looking up and even when you don’t know...SMILE. Love this tee by “empowHering” Sheryl @thoughtfulthreads.store

Had to stop and see. To get closer. 3rd of 3. I t

Had to stop and see. To get closer. 3rd of 3.

I took a little jig when I should have jagged going to the post office last week. And it brought me by this pretty.

Keep looking up! Closer. 2nd of 3rd photo. Yester

Keep looking up! Closer. 2nd of 3rd photo.

Yesterday was 1 of 3.

Speckled dots of clouds like thrown ideas in the a

Speckled dots of clouds like thrown ideas in the air. Will they take form, into a bigger shape? Or just float away. A wisp of a thought.

Will you let that idea escape?

Ideas are easy. Execution takes effort. Take the step.

“Red, brown, yellow ❤️ 🤎 💛 Black and w

“Red, brown, yellow ❤️ 🤎 💛
Black and white 🖤 🤍
They are precious in His sight 👀
Jesus loves the little children ✝
Of the world” 🌎

This childhood song popped into my head this week.

Remembering all the sweeping graceful beauty of Af

Remembering all the sweeping graceful beauty of Africa. One year ago on Safari in Kenya and Tanzania. It’s all God’s country.

Five national parks in two weeks: lions, giraffes, elephants, hippos, leopards, warthogs, hyenas, the great wildebeest migration, baboons, unique birds, Olduvai Gorge, Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Karen Blixton coffee garden (author Out of Africa), Giraffe center for endangered wildlife, Massai Mara tribe...it’s all God country.

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