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

Happy Wednesday!

Hello, Peoples! 

After the half-baked blog change I pulled a bit ago, I've been thinking more and more about my blog and what I want to do with it. 

As I said in my last post, I have several work-in-progress posts just sitting there and absolutely no desire to finish writing them.

I want to have some sort of direction with my blog. Some clear goal or purpose...or something. As it is, I basically have no idea what to write about and the longer the time between post the more frustrated I get with it. That's no good! That's rubbish.

I might take a tiny bit of a break from here. A real break to get myself back together and ready to post again.
It wont be a long break. Not much longer than my lack of blogging in general, but this time it will be deliberate and therefore I will benefit more from it. That is my sincere hope anyway! *Grin*

Some of the things I'm thinking about focusing on around here are;

1.) Music. I'm sort of doing that already, but I'd like to have a clearer goal there as well. Something I'm toying with is posting some snippets of my work-in-progress song lyrics. I'm just not sure if any of you really want to read bits and pieces of my lyrics. And I'm not sure if I'm ready to share them. But I'm toying with it.

2.) I'd like to start sharing cooking/baking things again. I spend a great amount of time in the kitchen and I love it. Who doesn't like food?
So maybe recipes will start sneaking in here.

3.) Boxing. Yes. I finally said it out loud. Boxing is one of my favorite things and I might start sharing that a bit more. (I figure since it's part of my header now, it wouldn't surprise anyone.:)Would you like that?

4.) Hair related stuff. Because I'm pretty good at hair. And I like hair. And I like the idea of doing tutorials. But again, do you want to see hair again? Perhaps more importantly, will I have time to do hair related things around here?
That's what I'm mulling over. ;)

So I shall take a break and do some thinking and planning.
What do you think of that plan? Sounds good, right?  

Life has been really good around here, on an entirely different note. My brother-in-law and sister came for a visit over the last week which resulted in much merriment and noise.

 My brother-in-law had a job interview in the near-ish vicinity and we're all praying like crazy that he gets it. The Midwest is very far away and having them closer would be the greatest thing since the invention of running water.

My crazy-awesome brother was insane and showed up to my place of employment and handed Treskie and I the keys to a fabulous Land Rover. 

Meet Jarvis

Who gets a CAR as a random surprise present??!!
That was one of those things that just make  you think, "Holy cow, I am unbelievably blessed." And it's wonderful and overwhelming at the same time.

Quite frankly, life has been full of a lot of little, wonderful things. 
Hikes and music and beautiful flowers, and actual writing inspiration. It's awesome.

Friday I head off on a mini-vacation to visit my bestie and celebrate her bridal shower. Bridal showers are fun! But it's so strange to think that when May comes, she's going to be married. Growing up is so weird!

Take care and I'll be back! Not soon, but I will be back! Rather like Arnold Schwarzenegger. *Wiggles sunglasses*

God Bless!
Amy