This is not farewell my friend...

... we're just getting closer to the homeland.


Hello my people!  I know it's been forever and my oh my has a LOT happened in these past months.  Here are some "this is good" moments that come to mind:

  • I chopped off all my hair. SO GOOD.
  • I went to this RIDICULOUSLY AMAZING music festival called PASSION where I got to witness Chris Tomlin, Kristian Stanfil, and David Crowder worship their hearts out along with 10,000 fellow Christians aged 18 - 25. My mind was blown, I just started crying at the second song as I was overwhelmed by the Lord's presence in that arena.  Such a good weekend.
  • I met the love of my life, he moved away, and is now visiting for the weekend AND will be attending camp with me. FANTASY MUCH! Ha but all is good, we are good mates and we will see what happens!
  • On another "love" note I was kind of seeing this guy and we were in the "dating but not dating" zone where we had to decide if we were going to take it to that level or not and I just don't think it's going to work. Sad as that is, a few friends of mine are rather devo'd about it as they really like him but I just don't see it for me. At least not right now.
  • I started playing Ultimate again, love it!
Other than that I've just been doing school, and living life. I finished the renovations at work which were so much fun and I miss my crew dearly but it was a good chapter to add to my  book of life.

Now to why I am writing this blog post. Friends, the time has come for "This is Good..." to come to an end.

"But Why? :( "
Well you see, I initially started this blog to reflect upon all the great experiences in my life, the moments that made me smile, gave me joy, or impacted me in a life-changing way.  But then I started to rely on this blog for my happiness, I had to stop and search for something "good" that was happening with my life and when I couldn't "find" anything, I sunk.  Then something monumentally grand would happen and I would reach that high mountaintop summit and would think I'd never have to come back down to the valley again. But of course, I would, and that sadness would creep in and surround all of those good moments and good feelings and choke them out.

But then things started to change. I found myself getting swept away by life, I was in a new relationship with life and it was our "honeymoon" phase.  I stopped having this need to find moments of goodness for my whole day would be wonderful.  Nothing could bring me down, sure I would have times of sadness and despair but they would quickly disappear as if they had never shown up in the first place.

As I knew my time at this blog was coming to an end I decided to do something all of us artsy Island folk do: I got a tattoo. I know what you're thinking, a TATTOO? FOR A BLOG? 

Yes I did.  It says "This is Good." But instead of an ellipsis at the end I got a period.  I wanted it to signify that I, that "this" whatever it may be, is good. Plain and simple. There's no more to it than that. I am good, I am worthy and that's that.

So the time has come to say goodbye. I'm going to leave the blog active for I think the writer in me still has more to say, and I want to be able to look back on those memorable posts that we got to experience together. Love you all. 

Don't ever forget that you are so much more that you could ever fathom and that this, this is good. Period.



Much love and never-ending stories -- Amy

Comments

  1. AnonymousMay 2, 2012 at 4:44 PM

    thank you Amy for sharing - the blog will miss but new adventures around the corner! :) <3 rae

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  2. FaithMay 3, 2012 at 10:44 AM

    I'll miss your sweet ramblings! But I love the significance behind ending this blog and starting a new chapter in your life! A good chapter! And I know EXACTLY what you mean, ups and downs and all of it. Just remember there's still going to be downs ahead too, hopefully not too many, but God is ALWAYS good!

    P.S. A tattoo? You are such a rebel...

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