DESTINY
The Calling Towards Going Higher
“At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. ” - Matthew 27:51-52.
To The Dreamers and all who read this,
Happy Resurrection Sunday.
The Tomb is empty.
He has risen.
Yahshua was called by Yahweh to live up to his destiny written centuries before he arrived.
It was part of the supreme plan for us to follow his heart.
Yahshua had to live up to his destiny.
That is our responsibility too; to live up to our calling, our purpose.
Often times we are distracted by the noise, the doubters, the biggest one being ourselves.
However, it is necessary.
The wealthiest place on Earth is the graveyard.
Ideas, paintings, buildings, businesses, books, inventions.
They missed their destiny, but while we are alive, we can still fulfill ours.
Some days it feels like life is moving too slow, like you’re doing your best but still not seeing the results you hoped for.
But destiny doesn’t always reveal itself in big moments. Sometimes, it’s being shaped quietly through the hard days, the waiting season, the lessons, and the times you chose not to give up.
Every setback, every delay, and every challenge can still be part of the path that’s leading you to where you’re meant to be.
Keep trusting your journey, even when it doesn’t make sense yet. You don’t have to have everything figured out right now to be walking toward your purpose.
Just keep showing up, keep growing, and keep believing that something greater is ahead for you. Your destiny is not behind you, it’s still unfolding.
May you always be committed to your destiny
I love you all more than you know!
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Song of The Week:
My favorite song from Kenji’s album, “to see thru closed eyes”
Link of The Week:
The Performative Cruelty of Dating Apps Discourse - Paul Platt
Film of the Week:
A gorgeous neo-noir crime thriller in the heart of LA
Below is an excerpt from movie reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz on the movie:
”There’s a lot more going on with all the characters, and the movie gives them space to breathe, interact, and worry about more than the challenges that are right in front of them. “Crime 101” begins with a cross-cut montage of Mike, Sharon, and Lou preparing for the day’s events, while the soundtrack plays a relaxation tape Sharon uses each night, hoping it will help her fall asleep. (It never does.) The speaker alludes to becoming one with the universe and your fellow human beings, who are all connected to you, even if you don’t realize it.
This is a recurring motif that develops and expands throughout the movie, with conversations about free will and fate, and about how the cult of individuality, when practiced widely, has a destructive impact on society. Mike is rich thanks to his cut from all the heists, and Sharon’s doing very well herself, but Lou lives with his soon-to-be-ex wife Angie (Jennifer Jason Leigh, underused but effective) in a cluttered little house.
As we look at Lou’s world, as well as the homes and workspaces of other characters, we can’t help but mentally juxtapose it with the wealth and decadence of those characters, who seem to care about nothing except climbing the social ladder and getting even richer than they already are. There are shots of homeless encampments on the streets of Los Angeles, and when Mike opens up just a little bit to Maya and others, we learn (without researchable details) that he grew up poor, experiences severe class anxiety in luxurious spaces, and is trying to accumulate money so he can stop working at some point and enjoy life. When Maya asks if Mike has a “number in mind,” he says he does but won’t elaborate. Which is all by way of saying that this is an unusually class-conscious crime film to have been released by any major studio or streaming platform, let alone Amazon. It’s the rare big-budget Hollywood movie that has a very clear idea of what it wants to say, faithfully replicating genre clichés while putting a nifty spin on them.
The result is several cuts above the usual movie with DNA from “Heat.” At the risk of being exiled for heresy, it’s superior in certain extremely specific ways, especially in its ability to create a visceral sense of a whole society buzzing around its characters, and make each as lifelike as possible in whatever amount of time they’ve been allotted. The latter is especially evident in the film’s treatment of major female characters. They always come across as full human beings, apart from the men. There was applause at several points during the screening I attended, but the biggest reaction came not from a quotable threat or spectacular stunt, but from Sharon telling her boss what she thinks of him.
Hemsworth continues to prove that of all the screen actors so conventionally handsome that they could have been created in a lab to play superheroes, he’s the most versatile. He’s convincing here as a tall bruiser who does a superficially convincing imitation of a confident, happy man, but has trouble maintaining eye contact with others, and radiates a haunted energy that comes through if you spend enough time around him. We sometimes can see the deprived and neglected boy inside this man, even when he’s at his most intimidating. Mike is carrying around traumas he won’t reveal. Like, ever. This is a film that respects viewers enough to let them infer what isn’t shown or discussed.
Ruffalo’s unpredictable approach to this character is delightful. Lou speaks softly and nearly always has a faint smile on his face and a happy gleam in his eye, even when he’s being challenged, insulted, or threatened. He has terrible posture and doesn’t so much walk as shamble, and he clearly takes great pride in his ability to verbally sucker-punch a suspect with a question that wipes the smirk off their face and makes them realize that this grubby little man who smells like cigarettes and has a Mario mustache is going to put them behind bars. He’s the continuation of Columbo by other means.
This is a special movie. It has a life force unlike any other crime thriller I’ve seen. It’s about characters who suffer a personal failure but emerge transformed. It’s a violent movie, but not a cruel one, and unexpectedly moving by the end.”
Second 5/5 movie of 2026.
Rating: 5/5
Read of the Week: Love & Ambition by Khalil
A beautifully written musing on the tension of success and love.
This piece hit me deeply and I sent it to many friends. What a piece.
My favorite observation:
Until next time.
With Light, Peace, & Loving-kindness
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