Photographer, Educator, Student, Mother & Wife Obsessed with sharing moments through pictures & words
“You can make plans, but the Lord’s purpose will always prevail.” ~Proverbs 19:21 I know I have quite a few people anxious to see some of what I’ve been working on for part of the last month and a half. I’m quite excited to finally share the entire 2012 spina bifida awareness campaign that I’ve...
God bless you Amanda Kern for illustrating so beautifully that these children and adults are not defined by a diagnosis. I am so grateful that you are so transparent in the words you use to describe your journey. I choke up looking at the photos as I know so many of these incredible individuals and know many challenges they’ve endured. Thank you for using your incredible talents to educate, help and bring joy to so many.
What a beautiful collection!
Thank you for the inspiration.
Amanda,
You have been so blessed with your gift of photography and now you are blessing so many others. Your ability to see and capture the essence of each person through the camera’s lens is truly amazing. Thank you for opening everyone’s eyes to the beauty of each individual, created and wonderfully made by God. You bring love, joy and such a sense of purpose and hope to us all. May you find inner peace knowing you are a treasured instrument of healing and love in this world. Thank you.
Wow! Amanda!! This truly takes my breath away!!! Thank you so much for all of the time and effort you put into these campaigns!
Amanda, your journey and illustrating is inspiring, beautiful, and emotional. I have not let Spina Bifida define me.
Thank You
Amanda, thank you for sharing your beautiful, emotional and inspiring journey. We will not let Spina Bifida define us, we will define it with the help from people like you and those around us. knowledge is the key, it can open many doors.
Wow! This is amazing! I am 41 with SB! Thank you for sharing! This should show awareness to the world!
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful. You have captured the essence of how small a part of a life Spina Bifida is as represented by the small(ish) scar on the babies back, to me anyway. This mark, to me represents that Spina Bifida is not this huge all encompassing diagnosis of gloom and doom the medical profession try to make it out to be. The scar on the lower back is a unique stamp of belonging, to an amazing group of people, who are connected to a larger courageous, fun and happy family. Thankyou
I love it! My daughter has Spina Bifida. I wish we had a better campaign here in West Michigan.
Dearest Amanda,
There is no doubt that God’s purpose is strong in this campaign. My sister, Suzanne McKee, shared this with me. As a neonatal nurse I have taken care of many children with spina bifida. I have no doubt that you had divine inspiration from the moment you received Chance’s diagnosis and listened to your heart (God’s voice)in developing this campaign. I ditto what my sister said in her previous comment….God bless you for using your talents in such a way. I will share this with others, with sincere thanks!
Thank you so much…your love and purpose shines so brightly. An inspiration to everyone.
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ~anonymous Times have been busy and I’m anxious to share a lot of new work in the week ahead. With it being spina bifida awareness month, I prolonged sharing my favorite photos from Yadiel’s session so that you all...
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“The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.” ~Mother Teresa I learned earlier this year that the folks leading the Central Florida Blogger Conference would be supporting the Spina Bifida Association of Central Florida in a “blogging for good” initiative they were going to do at this year’s conference. Throughout...
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“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.” ~ Abraham Lincoln As many of you may be aware, I’ve spent quite a bit of time this year training and ran my first half marathon at the end of April this year in support of our baby boy...
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“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.” -Brian Tracy As many of you know, I’ve been training for a half-marathon that I’ll be running this weekend. Yes, it seems like I just started training yesterday…four months later…here I am about to go...
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