Happy Birthday - Corona Virus - Advertising Photographer - Hampton Roads, VA

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Happy birthday! What a struggle and a blessing it has been. I’m sad that my two older daughters and their husbands couldn’t be here today. But I had my favorite tacos!!! I’m so blessed.

When this all started a few weeks ago. Photoshoots started getting postponed, cancelled, and moved. Then there was a run on the grocery stores. Panic set in and people started cleaning the shelves of toilet paper. Some laughed, but I saw fear. That fear started people panic buying food in the stores. Now millions of people have been laid off, and we are being told the people out of work rival that of the great depression. At the same time there are a lot of great companies hiring! It’s amazing to see American ingenuity at work.

Here is what I know Americans are wonderful, and generous. When we are backed into the a corner is precisely we are our strongest. Its our faith for the one true God and savior Jesus Christ. When we know he is in control, and he is in control, something amazing will come from all this. Its my prayer its a renewal of the American people’s faith. Through the love demonstrated to us on the cross we can poor that same love onto those around us, and we will be stronger than ever. America will once again be the light of the world.

That’s my birthday wish.