This Is Good...

You be Gretzky and I'll be Messier... Del Barber. I love you. If I had to listen to only one person sing for the rest of my life I would be content with it being this man. He blessed our little town with a performance about a month ago and I was stupid enough not to go! I am sto peeved at myself for passing this by because he is now on constant rotation on my stereo and I would have loved to see him live. But alas, I blew it. So in case you haven't heard this little gem before I highly reccomend him. When I have ever been wrong about music before? Exactly. Much love and all that good stuff- Amy Some good songs to check out are: 62 Richmond Waitress Love is just a wrecking ball Give me a story I can believe If I told you that I loved you

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think... ...w e do this because we are afraid. --Bach

"I love food" This was a common thread in my lunch date today. As I sat at a table for two with an old friend at our favourite meeting place (the Garage obvs) I couldn't help but soak in the familiar atmosphere and think "This is Good" We munched on fantastic quesadillas, chatted about days of ole and future hopes and after finishing our meal we took in the sun rays like two fat house cats. As I arrived home I noticed my mailbox was overflowing! I ran over to it to find a package from Treelines, a super choice band from which I had ordered a tank and CD (currently enjoying both) and also a letter from a fellow blogger and acquaintance. Although me and this lovely girl were never super close while she was at home I feel like we just get each other. You know how people say you can have a "soul mate" and not in the cheesy Serendipity way where it's some silly guy but just a person that you instantly click with and just understand. I feel like tha

The Lord is good to me and so I thank the Lord.... Jumping Jehoshaphat Yeehaw! My life is forever changed by the weekend I just had, and not changed like the times before where things went well for a day or two and then flopped back down in to deep dark lameness but they will actually never be the same. At the retreat I got to share a dorm with 4 amazing girls, three of which I already knew quite well and now I have a new girl to mentor and guide. So choice! Our speaker blew me away with how open and genuine he was about things that had gone on it his past, I have never seen someone so willing to share deep secrets such as these that the average person wouldn't even admit to themselves, let alone a room of 140 teenagers. I now hold this man at such high esteem and am genuinely flabbergasted by his heart. Saturday night after he spoke we were offered the chance to stay back and pray if we felt the need, I had been bawling as per usual and decided I needed to face what I was going th

This is Good! I am going to camp tomorrow! I don't know what it is about this place but whenever I am there I feel like not a single thing can go wrong, I am invincible, God is on my side! I feel like I am accepted 100% for every aspect of my being and that is just so fantastic. The sad thing is I need to be feeling these sorts of things in all situations, I'm working on that. As for now I am super jazzed on a weekend to literally "retreat" back to those feelings and friends from the summer and to get back on track with my Lord and saviour. Much love and happy campers- Amy

Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire, but, which neither one wants to start

I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't know what it is about a group of girls spinning simultaneously, arms spread wide, tutus propped just so, buns atop their heads, simply using their bodies in the most beautiful way we know how. My heart dearly misses it. ... and we danced like a wave on the ocean.

"A broken nation restored through all you are" God has been revealing a plethora of things to me lately and I feel like I need to share them with you :) Last bible study we did tests on spiritual gifting and finding out what mine were really helped reveal some things to me and helped me understand why I act the way I do and why certain things bother me and not others. This was especially helpful in explaining my relationship with my Mom. In short I am a compassion person, therefore I need a lot of affection and attention and I get angered when people are rude or don't have sympathy for people. My mother (although she didn't take the test) is definitely a Perciever. She sees things black and white, thinks with her head, and although likes people she needs time alone to re cooperate, whereas I feed off being around other people and when I'm alone I shut down. One thing that our leader brought up is that my Mom probably doesn't show a lot of affection and when