This Is Good...

Well what do we have here?  I know, I know, I've been completely out of the blogosphere for a while now, but, alas, I have something to share and therefore, This is Good is revived yet again. I was able to cabinlead this past week at my favorite place, Camp Imadene, and along with that amazing experience, I was also asked to speak in chapel! OH SNAP KIDDIES! Yes, I, Amy Pickard, speech impediment and leaky eyes in tow, but I did it. And I didn't completely suck. The week was amazing as I knew it would be. I expected God to show up, and he did, but never in the ways I expect him to.  My girls were fantastic, beautiful, caring, HILARIOUS, but lacking in conversational skills. Cabin time was verging on painful. I would ask the required questions, along with my own, and nothing. Crickets. This was really trying for me as we all know I love myself a good chat, but it was also a test to get back to basics. God was showing me that I didn't need to try so hard. All I was being

Wow. So  I haven't done this is a very, very long time.  It's kind of surreal being on here, feels like such a long lifetime ago that this was the biggest part of my life.  Sad but true. I was reading through 1 John the other night and a couple verses really struck me and I thought, I'm going to write a blog about these. Thus, I came crawling back to ol' faithful here to share a few choice words with you. I'm a little rusty, so bear with me :) "If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything" 1 John 3:19 Now I had to look up the definition of " condemn " to fully grasp what this meant, the second definition states that this means to s entence someone to a particular punishment, especially death.  Now as per usual little ol' Amy here has been having her heart toyed with a bit as of late and I kind of related it to this verse and got a lot of hope from it as well. Can any of you rela