Well...I'm back

Hello, Everyone!

Happy New Year!

To be honest, I deliberated for a long time about whether or not to keep blogging or if I should quietly close this place down.
The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. Or the flesh just doesn't seem to have much free-time these days. Lol.

But I'm not ready to say goodbye to this little corner of the internet. I still have so  much I want to share and so many things I'd like to do here. So I thought I might as well see if I can give it another go. Even if it's only now and then. After all, it's my blog, I can do what I want, right? Hehe!

So here we go, the first post of 2017 and hopefully the first of many!

New year...I love the start of the year! I love how fresh and crisp it is. Like getting a new notebook and you want to fill it up with all kinds of cool things, but you also want to take the time to just enjoy all those clean, empty pages.

I've always been a bit of a 'new years resolution' girl. I like having a goal or two for the year. I usually have something I want to do and need a nudge to actually do (like boxing classes) and something that's more about getting closer to God.

My two main goals this year are:

• Trust God.
• Create music:

I'll do a post a little bit later about the fist resolution. :) For now, this is more just a thoughtful sort of post that in a roundabout way deals with the second resolution. Apologize in advance for general cheesey-ness. Sometimes you just gotta!

Over the last few months I've been full to overflowing with inspiration and dreams and a longing to do things and create things.

It seems that everywhere I turn right now, I keep seeing things that make me want to create, things that make me want to share how much beauty I see in the world. Things that remind me with sharp clarity how much God must love this crazy old world...Things that make me dream.

I believe that God gives us talent, and dreams to go with them, for a reason. Even if we never do anything big and important with them, I think we are meant to use them.

Now I'm going to ramble for a minute.
 I know that our main purpose in being on this lovely little planet is to earn our Salvation and make it to Heaven. That's what God wants first and foremost from all of us. And that's what really maters.

And perhaps what God asks from us sometimes is to give up something we love. To realize, perhaps, that a particular dream we had isn't what He wants for us.

But I also think that our talents, our dreams are a gift from God. And I think God wants us to use them unless He says otherwise.

I mean, when you give someone a present, doesn't it just make you so happy when they actually put it to good use? It makes you feel like your present meant something to them and they value it.

I'd imagine it must make God happy when we use His gifts well. Even if it's just in some small way.

Maybe talents are the tools God has given us to help other people.

Think how many times you've been in a tough place and you read that one book  that gave you new hope, made you feel a tiny bit stronger. Or you've had a really bad day and then you hear that one song that just makes you feel peaceful again. That's such a wonderful thing, isn't it?

And how amazing is it that God, who has created such beauty and light, and filled the universe with mystery, saw fit to give His creatures the ability to create as well?

For me, writing music is something I really want to pursue. I want to write lyrics that share a little bit of who I am. I want see if I can create something beautiful. (Even if I am the only one who thinks it's beautiful! Lol)
I also want to create cover songs that are my version of the song. This is tricky because even though I usually have a fairly good idea of what I want my music to sound like, I don't play nearly enough instruments to make it happen. And the ones I do play I'm not super great at.
But hey-ho, a goal is a goal and I might as well start somewhere.
That's my music goal this year.

What is your talent? What's something you love and really want to do more of? Maybe now's a good time to start! Even if you're taking baby-steps. It's worth it.

As far as this blog goes, I still want to do what I was going to do last year. I want it to be primarily a blog that deals with music.

• Sharing songs
• Talking singers, songwriters, and musicians. 
• Maybe sharing my stuff.
• Other music-related things like books, movies,etc.

Anyway, I realize that was a complete information dump. I sat down to write and realized it had been so long that I had no idea where to start or how much to stick all together in one post. Kudos to you if you made it all the way through! You brave soul! Haha!

2017! Let's make it a great one!

God Bless,

Amy

Resolution-y stuff.

Hi there, everyone! 

So, 2014 is dead and gone.

*Ponders this*

It went by fast! I'm still a little stunned that we're living 2015 already. Golly dang!

I had a lot of hopes for 2014 and some of them came true and some of them didn't. Just like any year. There was a whole lot of good stuff, though, which I'm so very grateful for. And there was some hard stuff which I got through. And I'm grateful for that too.

I'm actually really excited for 2015!  

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I named 2014 Harry last year.

This year is Floyd. Perhaps Floyd will be amazing. Here's hoping!

It's that 'resolutions' time of year. Resolutions are the best thing ever...in theory. But it's so hard to fulfill them! Or is that just me?

Anyway, this year I'm going to try just setting some goals (maybe if I don't call them resolutions they'll be easier to do,) and see how much happens over this squeeky-clean, new year.

I would dearly love to play guitar. But I don't. And why the heck not?! I don't know.

This year I want to learn, dang it!

Hand in hand with that, I want to compose my own music. It's been a goal of mine for...ages. And again, I don't.

This year I will! Dang it! I will!
At least one song. How hard could it be? (That comment is going to haunt me later. I just know it!:)

In fact, a lot of my goals for this year are music related. They usually are and that's saying something, isn't it. *Nods*

Now, I'm off to face the world. 
2015, here I come! (Please be nice, okay? Like...really nice.)

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Three cheers for the new year! *Hoot. Hoot. Hoot!*

God Bless!
Amy

Hoot-hoot to 2013!

I will admit, I am so ready for the new year. 2012 wasn't all that fantastic for me and I shall be glad to see the back of it. I might have pinned too many hopes on it, or maybe I just thought the number 2012 would be my lucky number, but it let me down rather and I'm welcoming 2013 with open arms. Sort of like, "Alright, 2013, let's see what you've got to offer." :D
This is my general feelings toward 2012.



Even still, I always feel a little bit sad about the end of the year. It's like when you finish a book, and the story is just...done. That's how I feel when I look back. There are always things I sort of wish I had done or things I wish I hadn't. But either way, the year is done and that's that.

I like to look at the start of the new year. It's nice to look forward at a whole year that hasn't been touched yet and know that everything is still possible for it. You still have time to accomplish everything you hope to.

With that thought in mind, I've decided to create a 'bucket' list for this year. I have lots of little things that I want to try and do and some big things that I should do.
I do love lists.
I've been mulling over some things in my head to put on this list and I have a feeling it's going to be a mish-mash of useful and not so useful things. For instance, I've always wanted to order a starbucks under a different name...and maybe with a different accent. I just have never had the guts to do it. I chicken out at the register. So that will be one the list. :p
I'm thinking about taking an acting class. I've wanted to for a long time, but again, I never have to guts to do it. But maybe this year...
I want to learn how to pick a lock.
My flute has been neglected and I want to see if I can practice it every day for a year. And I need to get more serious with my singing.

I've never done a bucket list before and I'm looking forward to giving myself a bit a challenge.
I am the sort of person that loves to do things but hardly ever follow through. Here's hoping that I'll be better this year!

Mostly, I just want to learn to trust God more and try harder to do what He wants me to do, and not what I want to do. God has given me this new year and blessed my life with so many things, so it's up to me to use them well.

Happy New Year!

God Bless!
Amy