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al·ter /ˈɔltər/ [awl-ter] / –verb (used without object) to change; become different or modified. / [Origin: 1350–1400; ME < OF alterer < LL alter�?re to change, worsen, deriv. of L alter other] / —Synonyms 1. See adjust, change. (Further detail about this work in my blog & journal)
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Blood for oil. It’s a world wide suicide. Other versions :
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Blood for oil. It’s a world wide suicide. Other versions :
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World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity (1992) Some 1,700 of the world’s leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, issued this appeal in November 1992. The World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity was written and spearheaded by the late Henry Kendall, former chair of UCS’s board of directors. INTRODUCTION Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about. / THE ENVIRONMENT The environment is suffering critical stress: The Atmosphere / Stratospheric ozone depletion threatens us with enhanced ultraviolet radiation at the earth’s surface, which can be damaging or lethal to many life forms. Air pollution near ground level, and acid precipitation, are already causing widespread injury to humans, forests, and crops. Water Resources / Heedless exploitation of depletable ground water supplies endangers food production and other essential human systems. Heavy demands on the world’s surface waters have resulted in serious shortages in some 80 countries, containing 40 percent of the world’s population. Pollution of rivers, lakes, and ground water further limits the supply. Oceans / Destructive pressure on the oceans is severe, particularly in the coastal regions which produce most of the world’s food fish. The total marine catch is now at or above the estimated maximum sustainable yield. Some fisheries have already shown signs of collapse. Rivers carrying heavy burdens of eroded soil into the seas also carry industrial, municipal, agricultural, and livestock waste—some of it toxic. Soil / Loss of soil productivity, which is causing extensive land abandonment, is a widespread by-product of current practices in agriculture and animal husbandry. Since 1945, 11 percent of the earth’s vegetated surface has been degraded - an area larger than India and China combined - and per capita food production in many parts of the world is decreasing. Forests / Tropical rain forests, as well as tropical and temperate dry forests, are being destroyed rapidly. At present rates, some critical forest types will be gone in a few years, and most of the tropical rain forest will be gone before the end of the next century. With them will go large numbers of plant and animal species. Living Species / The irreversible loss of species, which by 2100 may reach one-third of all species now living, is especially serious. We are losing the potential they hold for providing medicinal and other benefits, and the contribution that genetic diversity of life forms gives to the robustness of the world’s biological systems and to the astonishing beauty of the earth itself. Much of this damage is irreversible on a scale of centuries, or permanent. Other processes appear to pose additional threats. Increasing levels of gases in the atmosphere from human activities, including carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning and from deforestation, may alter climate on a global scale. Predictions of global warming are still uncertain - with projected effects ranging from tolerable to very severe - but the potential risks / are very great. Our massive tampering with the world’s interdependent web of life - coupled with the environmental damage inflicted by deforestation, species loss, and climate change - could trigger widespread adverse effects, including unpredictable collapses of critical biological systems whose interactions and dynamics we only imperfectly understand. Uncertainty over the extent of these effects cannot excuse complacency or delay in facing the threats. / POPULATION The earth is finite. Its ability to absorb wastes and destructive effluent is finite. Its ability to provide food and energy is finite. Its ability to provide for growing numbers of people is finite. And we are fast approaching many of the earth’s limits. Current economic practices which damage the environment, in both developed and underdeveloped nations, cannot be continued without the risk that vital global systems will be damaged beyond repair. Pressures resulting from unrestrained population growth put demands on the natural world that can overwhelm any efforts to achieve a sustainable future. If we are to halt the destruction of our environment, we must accept limits to that growth. A World Bank estimate indicates that world population will not stabilize at less than 12.4 billion, while the United Nations concludes that the eventual total could reach 14 billion, a near tripling of today’s 5.4 billion. But, even at this moment, one person in five lives in absolute poverty without enough to eat, and one in ten suffers serious malnutrition. No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished. / WARNING We the undersigned, senior members of the world’s scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of what lies ahead. A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated. / WHAT WE MUST DO Five inextricably linked areas must be addressed simultaneously: We must bring environmentally damaging activities under control to restore and protect the integrity of the earth’s systems we depend on. / We must, for example, move away from fossil fuels to more benign, inexhaustible energy sources to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the pollution of our air and water. Priority must be given to the development of energy sources matched to Third World needs—small-scale and relatively easy to implement. We must halt deforestation, injury to and loss of agricultural land, and the loss of terrestrial and marine plant and animal species. We must manage resources crucial to human welfare more effectively. We must give high priority to efficient use of energy, water, and other materials, including expansion of conservation and recycling. We must stabilize population. / This will be possible only if all nations recognize that it requires improved social and economic conditions, and the adoption of effective, voluntary family planning. We must reduce and eventually eliminate poverty. / We must ensure sexual equality, and guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions. / DEVELOPED NATIONS MUST ACT NOW The developed nations are the largest polluters in the world today. They must greatly reduce their overconsumption, if we are to reduce pressures on resources and the global environment. The developed nations have the obligation to provide aid and support to developing nations, because only the developed nations have the financial resources and the technical skills for these tasks. Acting on this recognition is not altruism, but enlightened self-interest: whether industrialized or not, we all have but one lifeboat. No nation can escape from injury when global biological systems are damaged. No nation can escape from conflicts over increasingly scarce resources. In addition, environmental and economic instabilities will cause mass migrations with incalculable consequences for developed and undeveloped nations alike. / Developing nations must realize that environmental damage is one of the gravest threats they face, and that attempts to blunt it will be overwhelmed if their populations go unchecked. The greatest peril is to become trapped in spirals of environmental decline, poverty, and unrest, leading to social, economic, and environmental collapse. Success in this global endeavor will require a great reduction in violence and war. Resources now devoted to the preparation and conduct of war - amounting to over $1 trillion annually - will be badly needed in the new tasks and should be diverted to the new challenges. A new ethic is required—a new attitude towards discharging our responsibility for caring for ourselves and for the earth. We must recognize the earth’s limited capacity to provide for us. We must recognize its fragility. We must no longer allow it to be ravaged. This ethic must motivate a great movement, convincing reluctant leaders and reluctant governments and reluctant peoples themselves to effect the needed changes. The scientists issuing this warning hope that our message will reach and affect people everywhere. We need the help of many. / We require the help of the world community of scientists—natural, social, economic, and political. We require the help of the world’s business and industrial leaders. We require the help of the world’s religious leaders. We require the help of the world’s peoples.
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WARNING: Viewer Discretion Strongly Adviced! This is my first wake-up call in my domestic Violence series. On my old art account I created this series and got quite attention for my work. But what is my goal with that? To manifest with my art that world peace starts at home and you can only end Domestiv Violence when you face the issue and cannot look away from this rapidly growing problem. Could you look away from this artwork? Does this completely caught your attention? It should since those are worlds millions of people hear right now in this very moment and even worse. Did you know: - Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime - The most rapid growth in domestic relations caseloads is occurring in domestic violence filings. Between 1993 and 1995, 18 of 32 states with three year filing figures reported an increase of 20 percent or more. - In a national survey of more than 6,000 American families, 50 percent of the men who frequently assaulted their wives also frequently abused their children. Slightly more than half of female victims of intimate violence live in households with children under age 12. Studies suggest that between 3.3 – 10 million children witness some form of domestic violence annually. And this is not even the tip of the Iceberg, those are just a few noted statistics, but it is fact that this is not even the half of all “happening” cases around the world. What drove me to make this series? A lot. Someone very close and myself come out of violent families. My life long I have been treated like the sun wouldn’t shine for me too. Years long I have been hid from reality and locked in darkness, I lost my childhood and my youth through domestic violence and I can say that today strong like a rock. My life today is a lot better, my wife gives me the love I never had and felt and I give her the same back in my adornment and service. Unfortunately many woman/children/men go through this hell this very moment but the only problem politicians care about is to build up the nuke stock in their rocket facilities. They rather care to invest more money in war and weaponary as to support families, women and children who deserve a chance to live a happy life like our human and religious right tells us. I want to catch your attention with this image to say to you as a brother of this world, that you have the same rights to live as any other person, your gender, your creed or race doesn’t matter since we are all the same human, the same valuable and same unique and under the face of God are we all the same. Our lifetime is important and how we recieve our family, friends and even our neighbours will not be unseen, the generations will copy your behaviour and treat others the same. So…could you look away? I have a major plan with thi series since I would love to expand this as big as I can (even public plans), the next days will crystalize if I can move someones hearts or not. So, if you look right now at this artwork, and got some free time, leave a comment, and tell me how you feel about it. I can’t and won’t look away.
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Lisa C. Weber ©2007 (Created with Bryce 6.1) Visit My Complete Bubble for all My 3D Artwork. Thanks for dropping by and enjoy!
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“To Be Free” is a crop from the Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series by Mariam Muradian / & CC Arshagra.The Genetic Bill of Rights was drafted in 2000 by The Council for Responsible Genetics and GeneWatch, yet most people do not even now that it exists. These rights exist for everyone; to inform people that they have the right to govern their own genes, bodies, cultures, and biodiversity. / Copyright 2000. All rights reserved The Council for Responsible Genetics. / Professional photographs of the paintings by Kevin Sharp. / Acrylics, oil pastel, charcoal on 24”x30” canvas. Note to Artists: In the event that The Genetic Bill of Rights words inspire you to action, and you wish to use/reproduce them in any integral and aesthetic artistic way to spread the knowledge and collective conscience of these human rights worldwide; The Council for Responsible Genetics states: “Copyright 2000. All rights reserved The Council for Responsible Genetics. May be reproduced without permission ONLY in its ENTIRETY, INCLUDING this copyright notice.” / (This copyright is painted on the side of all these original canvases.) / This entire 11 piece painting series is available for exhibition. Curators please contact artists via BubbleMail. You can also go to URL http://www.thebigboxofcolors.org/ourmission/thegbrpaintingseries.html / to read the GeneWatch Magazine Cover Story Article about the series. ................................................................................................................. THE GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS / 1. All people have the right to preservation of the earth’s biological and genetic diversity. / 2. All people have the right to a world in which living organisms cannot be patented, including human beings, animals, plants, microorganisms and all their parts. / 3. All people have the right to a food supply that has not been genetically engineered. / 4. All indigenous peoples have the right to manage their own biological resources, to preserve their traditional knowledge, and to protect these from expropriation and biopiracy by scientific, corporate or government interests. / 5. All people have the right to protection from toxins, other contaminants, or actions that can harm their genetic makeup and that of their offspring. / 6. All people have the right to protection against eugenic measures such as forced sterilization or mandatory screening aimed at aborting or manipulating selected embryos or fetuses. / 7. All people have the right to genetic privacy including the right to prevent the taking or storing of bodily samples for genetic information without their voluntary informed consent. / 8. All people have the right to be free from genetic discrimination. / 9. All people have the right to DNA tests to defend themselves in criminal proceedings. / 10. All people have the right to have been conceived, gestated, and born without genetic manipulation. Spring, 2000 / Copyright. All Rights Reserved to The Council for Responsible Genetics
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Abandoned and Hungry. kambari child. Taken in Kebbe state. Nigeria.Please help us to help as many extreme Poverty Children as possible 15 years ago, I dedicated the remainder of my life to empowering extreme poor and sick children in remote and isolated village sin Africa. To provide Food, shelter, Medicines and Love to those who do not have, or cannot help themselves. Without a salary God has blessed me with the heart of love that keeps me committed to helping the poor. We need your prayers and help to reach many like this precious child. I am inspired by God who has given me a real passion to help as many suffering people in isolated and remote villages in Africa. 100% of all proceeds from sale of all my art or donations made via our charity website goes toward our Charity Projects in Deep Rural Africa. Please log onto our Charity website for information, Video clips and Photograph’s. / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ View all my art at: / http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1 Camera: Canon EOS 400D / Lens: EF70-300. ISO 400 WB: Daytime setting. Exposure Auto. Shutter speed: 1/500sec.
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100% OF ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALES OF MY ART OR DONATED ART GOES TO PHILADELPHIA MISSION, A REGISTERED CHARITY. WE WORK WITH EXTREME POOR SICK AND DISABLED IN ISOLATED AND RURAL AFRICAN VILLAGES. This is Violet aged 15 years old. She works in the fields from sunrise to sunset. Her Parents are dead. Violet works the small plot of land hoping to grow enough food for herself, her three younger brothers and sick Grandfather. she has a disability caused by Rickets, a disease that is common here. Her upper and lower limbs are bowed outwards. Yet Violet must force herself to work, or her dependants will starve. Please help us to help her and many more like her. This poem was beautifully written by a very talented poet and Writer called Adgray. God Bless you for wring this fitting piece . Does she dream of dancing and movies and fun / this girl with the faraway eyes / Has she the wish to kiss Brad Pit / Did she cry when Heath Ledger died? / What does she wish for when Christmas comes? / an ipod or mobile phone? / Does she complain there’s no chocolate again / in the fridge when she gets home. We complain we don’t have enough to survive / Money to cover our bills / and purchase the service and goods we desire / AND the luxury home in the hills / But where does it say life must be this way / That we have and she has not / That our world be of greed luxury and games / and hers of pain and hard lot. I look in the depths of these faraway eyes / and I think of my own teenage life / How I struggled with that I was expected to do / and rebelliously got into strife / I look at my own daughter of fifteen years / And know how I fiercely protect her / I support all her learnings and all her dreams / and use all my wisdom to guide her. But they are similar these girls far apart / for my daughter also cares for her home / She looks out for her younger siblings as well / and is rarely allowed to roam. And I wonder if having is really a curse / for to have not enough creates stress / equal to that of not enough food / but granted the consequence is less I shall show all my children these faraway eyes / for this girl is also one of their peers / their ages are similar their wants must compare / how I long to abate all her tears / I cannot succeed in my western world life / I struggle myself to survive / But oh how I wish I could lavish life’s gifts / On those beckoning faraway eyes. Arthor; adgray. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/adgray I invite all to please visit Philadelphia Mission Africa Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Donate your art and save a child’s life! See all my work in groups at:http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1 Canon:EOS 400D. Lens: Canon 300mm Zoom. ISO 100 / [AS IS]
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Made for AgentProv : Weekend T-Shirt Challenge – Something Different Inspired by song: Black Eyed Peas : Where Is The Love? ( Lyrics & Video ) This similar symbol has been used in Where is the love Video . Another version here:
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"We're Only Human"
by colorblindThink about it…If we have enough power to destroy the world / Why don’t we have enough power to save the world / But yet We’re Only Human
A poem about the species Labeled / Homo Sapiens / the Human Race / My view point and my thoughts about these ravage animals…lol / Let me know what you think even if to you it sucks….I just want the world input / And this piece like the rest is copywritten -This piece was inspired by peering at the perverted reality of which we live in….. (let me have your honest thoughts on this please take care and much love colorblind)
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I was born in Northern Ireland and now live in London. I have been a missionary now for 15 years. When We first met Susan on a mission to a rural village in April 2007, she was in the later stages of death. her body was infested with intestinal worms. medicines would not work. I prayed for her in the village, along with two other mission volunteers. We left to continue our journey. But God spoke to me, and We returned that evening and put her in our old battered vehicle and brought her to our mission centre. We continued to pray and command death to leave her alone. 5 days later and God completely healed her. Now as you see, Susan is completely healed. She shares her testimony with us on missions into other villages and many have also received healing and hope. Praise God! Please help us to continue to reach others in need and extreme poverty. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART, PLUS DONATIONS MADE TO PHILADELPHIA MISSION CHARITY, GOES TO HELP EXTREME POOR AND SICK IN REMOTE AND RURAL VILLAGES IN AFRICA. WE NEVER TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR GIVING. ALL CHARITY OVERHEADS ARE COVERED BY OUR MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS. Please visit my Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ See all my art and video at: / http://www.missionary.smugmug.com/ Camera: Canon EOS400D / Lens: Canon EF70-300 IS USM [AS IS]
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Grace looks at me with eyes of love and hope, as we explain to her that we will get medicines that will make her better. Grace is very ill and has intestinal worms. Here in developed countries If a child is sick with worms, a doctor will provide medicines to cure that child. they will get the best treatment possible. But in Tunga/Zuga, there is no Doctor and the nearest hospital is a grueling 40plus miles away. even then if the family has no money, the child will be refused treatment, except on rare occasions. Many Children here die from worm infection mainly caused by drinking polluted water. When the well dries up there is no choice. Thanks to your Prayers and financial donations. You have made it possible to help Grace. Please continue to pray for her, and help others in the villages just like Grace. ALL proceeds from sales of my art, and donations made via our Mission website, goes toward helping the extreme poor and sick in Isolated villages in Africa Donate some of your art and save a child’s life! Africa Mission Charity Website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Camera: Canon EOS 400D / Lens: Canon EF70-300 IS USM. / ISO 800. F Number 8. Exposure 1.250 sec. F length 116.00
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/>I am a missionary born in Northern Ireland and living in London for the past 23 years. This photograph of Angelena was taken while at a Church service in, Nigeria. This was the first time i met her. She was sitting at the back of the church against the wall on a seat all alone. I used full zoom and took over 50 photographs of her. This is the only one that came out good. this was not a planned pose and I caught her like this without her knowing. she was quite a distance from me. I was sitting on the platform waiting to be called to speak. This young Girl inspired me so much. Her young life is an inspiration to me of how faith and hope can carry us through difficult times. Angelina is 12 years old . She is one of the children we have been caring for for the past three years. When we found her three years ago she was close to death and without Parents. Three years later she is loved and attends school. We can and do make a difference to children in extreme poverty and sick. All it takes is Love and a heart of compassion to sow a little time and money into a child’s life and you will see the transformation. Angelina was dying from malaria when we first saw her. Now she lives a full life. She says she wants to be a doctor and help others who are sick. God bless her and all who helped us in helping her. 100% of all proceeds from sales of my art ,donated art, and donations made via Philadelphia Mission Charity website, goes to help extreme poor in Isolated and Rural villages in Africa. We take noting out of your donations. Please visit my Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ See all my art and video at: / http://www.missionary.smugmug.com/ Canon: EOS 400D Lens: Canon Canon 70-300 zoom. ISO 200. Speed 1/400sec. WB Daytime Mode. F8. AS IS
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Alfred is a young boy who has and does inspire me to raise awareness and raise funds and tools to help these extreme poor in Africa. We do this through Philadelphia Mission a British Registered Charity. [Reg No: 1049410]. / My great Passion in life is to bless others who are extremely poor, sick and disabled in Rural and Isolated villages in Africa. Alfred was found in Tunga/Zuga village by one of our Evangelist Staff members. He was very ill and had his leg amputated to save his life. He was taken by our staff member and cared for. Now he is in good health and at school. A boy who loves God and life. We can and do make a difference friends. Pray for us, and spread the word around the world of what God is doing in Isolated and remote villages in Africa. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART, OR DONATIONS MADE VIA OUR CHARITY WEBSITE GOES TO HELP EXTREME POOR IN ISOLATED AND RURAL VILLAGES IN AFRICA. I invite all to please visit Philadelphia Mission Africa Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ See all my work in groups at:http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1 Camera: Canon EOS 400D. Lens: Canon EF 70-300 IS USM. WB: Daylight. ISO: 400.
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This is Grace and she lives in Tunga/Zuga Village, deep in remote Nigeria. In December 2007, I uploaded Her Photographs and since then many people in Redbubble have been touched by her Beauty and illness. Through the kindness of some here on redbubble, We were able to purchase medicines to save her life. grace was dying from intestinal worms. This is because the village has no clean water. I spoke to our Volunteer worker today who is staying in the village, and he has informed me that Grace is now making a great recovery. Praise God. There are many Like Grace who die each year in agony. We are making a difference. Please pray and help us reach many more like grace. We need your gifts. It many be money, Skills, Talent, Prayer or simply sharing our work with others. You can truly save a child’s life. 100% of all proceeds from sales of art, and donations made via our Charity website goes toward helping these precious suffering people in Isolated and remote Africa. Camera: canon EOS 400D. LENS: Canon EF70-300 IS USM. ISO: 100. Shutter Speed 1/500 sec. WB: auto Focus: centre weighed
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Buenos Aires, Argentina - At a Tango show the pianist plays on -Canon EOS Rebel XT, Canon 85-300mm lens Submission for the 2010 Sony World Photography Awards “Submission for Digital Camera Magazine “Your Best Shot Photography Contest top 10 finish in “Best Black and White Shot” top 10 finish in Photography 101 – Using Artificial Light I: Reproducing the look of natural lighting
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PLEASE READ THIS. UPDATE: 11/7/2009 Sadly Little Anna has passed on to be with God. She died on Monday Monday 6th July at 4.35am. our Medical officer [pastor Joshua] and his wife our senior nurse were with her. We just did not have the money to pay for her hospital treatment. Although we pleaded with the hospital Senior medical team, they said they needed $1800 to cover the operation and after-care. Thank you to everyone who was praying for Anna. She is now at peace with our Lord. Please pray for Joan and Samuel, her parents. This was their last born child. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART, OR DONATIONS MADE VIA OUR CHARITY WEBSITE, GOES DIRECT TO HELP EXTREME POOR, SICK AND DISABLED IN RURAL AND REMOTE VILLAGES IN NIGERIA.. ANY DONATION MADE FROM 27TH MARCH WILL BE USED TO HELP ANNE. WHEN WE HAVE RAISED ENOUGH, THE DONATIONS WILL THEN BE USED TO HELP OTHERS. Donations can be made via Philadelphia Mission Africa Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Camera: Canon EOS400D. Lens: Canon 70-300 zoom.
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PLEASE READ THIS. Taken in remote Nigeria. I and the team were waiting for the ferry to cross then Nile and continue our long journey to Tunga Zuga Village in kebbe state. Often my work as a missionary, working with extreme poor and sick children can be very emotional.Tears of sorrow and heartbreak, desperation and frustration overwhelm me as I and the small mission team do what we can with the little we have to help. yet there are times like this one when there is joy and happiness as I see people and scenes of great beauty. Truly God has blessed me with a wonderful life. I have never had the joy of owning my own home, or having a nice car or wealth. yet I am so happy to have a relationship with Jesus.God supplies all my needs, and I have travelled with God to many villages and he has blessed many. Life is more than a job,Career, wealth or designer cloths. Life is living in Gods presence everyday and experiencing his love and peace. Life for me is doing what is in Gods heart and that is helping the extreme poor. My Inspiration and passion is from God. I Live for him and he lives through me. I have been on mission and not a penny in my pocket,yet my heavenly father has met my needs,concerning Food,lodging, travel and covered all expenses. One one occasion, he sent an angel to pay my hotel bill. While in India The Lord moved me so much to travel overnight on a train, a day early to return to London. If I had not obeyed his leading, I would have been killed in a terrorist bombing. Its a wonderful Life with God. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART,OR MONEY DONATED VIA OUR CHARITY MISSION WEBSITE, GOES TO HELP EXTREME POOR AND SICK IN REMOTE AND ISOLATED VILLAGES IN AFRICA. I invite all to Please visit Philadelphia Mission Africa Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Camera: Canon EOS 400D. Lens: Sigma: 50-500 Telephoto. WB :Cloudy. ISO 800.
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[Taken in Natural Light]. Taken on the banks of the river Nile, remote Nigeria. I got into conversation with this Muslim girl and I felt s deep compassion for her, as she said She sells peanuts to get money to help her Grandfather who cares for her and her brother and two sisters. Her mother is dead and when she died the father just left and never returned. She told me that she only sold three packets that day and she was selling from around 10 am to 7pm. She did not make enough even to buy basic foods. She spoke good English so I knew she had had some education. I and my fellow mission workers bought what she had left. Then I asked her If I could pray for her. She said yes. I asked God to open her heard adn reveal himself to her. We led to to Christ. She wept and the lord really did touch her. We now visit her village often. All proceeds from sale of my art, or donations made via our charity website goes to help extreme poor and sick in remote and rural villages of Africa. We do not take anything out of it. I invite all to Please visit Philadelphia Mission Africa Charity website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Camera: Canon EOS 400D. Lens: Canon EF70-300 IS USM. / ISO: 400.
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Over seven years ago, I became increasingly aware of the Earth changes and shifts in energy. Initially I tried to ignore them or find “logical” explanations as to what was happening, but eventually I was overwhelmed by what was happening on all levels around me. / Gradually I realized that it was the Earth herself who was trying to communicate with me.. / So I was compelled to take pen and paper and go and sit quietly in nature and ask “What is it you wish to tell me?” ...and this is what she said / ....... It has taken a long time for me to do this, but what was written back in 2003 has now been published in a book together with a collection of my images, and will be available for those who wish to read the message or honour the planet that we would be nothing without. This piece of art is to celebrate the publication of the book, Message From Mother Earth From the book….. “Do not be afraid. This is powerful awareness. But it is also useful and healing too. It teaches you that we can create the world we live in, by the power of our thoughts. You are seeing that your connection with every part of your life begins and ends within yourself, within your heart, within your true thoughts. You are part of this circle of life, this very web, this intricate design of cosmic energy. You are at the heart of it and from your heart comes the power to weave your own beautiful creation. It is within you to change, to heal, to create, and to simply BE. Do not overlook the importance of this knowledge. And do not overlook the magic. For if you can communicate with the planet you stand upon, and speak together from the heart, then nothing is impossible in heaven and earth! Believe it, and it shall be so. Disbelieve, and you hold only a hand full of dirt, and some air. I am real, and so are you, and we are connected.”
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