Inner workings of a stay at home mom.

This Christmas will be different then the rest. I'm a girl of traditions...this year well that's out the window...hahahah....we the Goodwin family(or gang,clan...or whatever you want to call us) are doing Christmas differently this year... Christmas-eve we will get up go to church(okay so that's normal) come home probably play board games with those of us who are home...(also normal) probably watch a movie.(normal) eat till we cant move!(normal) This is were it gets not normal...in parts.... go to bed (without opening 1 present...my favorite tradition) CHRISTMAS DAY Wake up and make coffee open secret Santa(or not so secret to some of us)presents. eat bagels and cream cheese. pack the van with our 7 peoples worth of bags (thank God for luggage racks). then load 7 grown people and a 100 pound dog into a 7 passenger van. leave for a 15 hour drive to Florida. wow this Christmas will be great! hehehehe.... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! P.S. you know what really makes me mad is that it i

A couple weeks ago at my Wednesday night church we had a big breakthrough for this generation and generations to come. It was great for me because I was able to admit that i once had an eating disorder, depression, anxiety, and that I really never liked my-self till this past year when God healed me from it. That night I got home and I wondered to my self... If God healed me from everything that ailed me.... why then do I not read my bible or pray to him? If I cant serve the God who made me then what am i doing calling my-self a christian? this i assure you was not an attack from the devil.... It was a conviction! I went a few days reading my bible and had a few prayers.... I can't help but think of my Dads sugar packet illustration. there is a flesh side and a spirit side.... I have herd this illustration many a times but it never hit me like today..... I have been feeding my flesh side all my life... and barely feeding my spirit side.... I know how to feed my spirit side.... I ju

I drew this awhile ago but JUST found out how to scan things heheheh

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. - Babe Ruth I saw this quote in a movie awhile ago and it never hit me till now but this has to do with the christian walk...think about it... all to many times I'm am afraid to go to talk to someone because I am afraid of them thinking I'm a crazy person... or to talk to a friend about this disipleship movement cause I'm afraid they wont be my friend any more... fear grips us all at one time or another... we must replace that fear with the word of God that will help us go talk to that person about Jesus or that person about the discipleship movement... you must surround yourself with people who are doing so... remodels if you will (in the discipleship movement we call the disciplers) they not only teach you how not to be afraid but they teach you how to walk in the Spirit... and to make sure you are knowing and doing your Spirital disciplines... being in a displeship relationship is VERY improtant.I would n

How Beautiful a shimmer of light in a sea of darkness How beautiful a child's laugh in a field of screams How beautiful a song a trust in a world of doubt how beautiful a man of faith in a place of death how beautiful an act of love for a world of hate how beautiful

I was sitting on my back deck star gazing when I felt someone sit next to me. now there was no one there...well no one you could see. You know those thoughts you get that you know aren't yours but God talking to you..yeah i had one right then the conversation went kinda like this... "thought"-"aren't they Beautiful? I made them" me- "yeah there amazing... why did you make them?" "thought"- "I made them for you Amy" me- tears hehehe... as I sat there with this presence I had this poem come to mind! How Beautiful a shimmer of light in a sea of darkness How beautiful a child's laugh in a field of screams How beautiful a song a trust in a world of doubt how beautiful a man of faith in a place of death how beautiful an act of love for a world of hate how beautiful

somewhere between the 4th and 8th episode of lost and the 8 pieces of pizza I realized I have an extended family! with cousins, aunts, uncles, grandmas, and grandpas! I have gone 7 years without them and now i have them in the body of Christ...the thing is with the body of Christ we are more connected and more deep then my blood extend family EVER was. and it feels good! Life in the body of Christ, makes me want to be more then just okay! I love my church and everyone in it! and i feel this is where God truly wants me to be! as i turn 17 I look back on the last few years I have had my heart broken by a boy...I have had about 6 or 7 "true" friendships fall apart... and i left the church I had gone to since i was 4! alot has happened yet i was NEVER truly deep down to the soul happy. but i would LOVE to tell you I am now! God has given me the best family a girl could ask for and great church family too... I am SO lucky you guys should just start calling me lucky! ~AEG~

last night was the best church meeting in a long time!it showed me what i needed to work on and what i needed to get over! well not really get over... a friend hurt me and well we aren't friends anymore and i have always wondered "what did I do?" the answer is nothing! besides stand up for my self... anyway God took her out of my life cause i didn't need her... a couple months prior to us ending our friendship I asked God to show me what was keeping me from him..or to just take it away! and well after taking it away and a couple months later I found out she was the last bit i was holding onto..we were such good friends that i didn't want to give her up... so as God has done in the past he took it by force... she was the last straw of the package that was my old church and He knew the straw was my favorite straw and as my parent He took it from me before i went and played...I guess what I'm trying to say is even though you may think someone is good for you the

Now that it's on, we're out in the front of this marathon I never really thought we were in such a big fight, until the other night . You see me and my sister share a room and have all but 4 years of my life! And Saturday she had a friend over and so I was in my room alone! I was getting ready for bed and I turned the light off and all of the sudden I felt this feeling that I was not alone in the room like some one was watching me. This wasn’t the first time that it has happened to me before but normally I let it be and try to go to sleep. but this time it was so strong I couldn’t do that! So I thought this is not of God so I said with as much confidence as I could muster IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST GET OUT! And it left. I was fine! War can be ugly. And this one is going to be big! Cause We're on the enemy's hit list. So step back I'm on a one way track, devil To take back all the things that you've stolen. And with the power of God I'm gonna persevere. '

this poem was sorta a journal entry, but i was reading it and it sounded more like a poem! To give you a background I had a best friend of 3 years. and it had always been a her dumping her problems on me and never caring about my problems. well after a couple of events that I couldn't stay quiet anymore about I confronted her about it and all I got was her telling me I'm to emotional and that I needed to get over it! so i wrote this poem/entry! Shouts from the phone screams of who you are and who I'm not tears I cry mean nothing to you I raise my voice Louder and louder still your words cut me like the knife you put in my back. tell me what you think One love One God Only one way Amy E. Goodwin

I wrote the poem when I was in my Gossip infested small group at my old church... I didn't like all the drama that went on there... and when I tryed to keep some friends from that group gossip and drama just crept right back into my friendship with them... the only way to get rid of drama and gossip is to surround your-self with Godly friends and not to partake in it... it was hard for me to do this and i still catch my-self doing my share of the gossiping! so read share what you think and yeah so talk to you all later! It spreads like water It burns like an unstoppable fire It goes on and on It hurts like a knife wound It spreads like a weed It goes on and on It messes with your emotions It tears relationships apart It goes on and on It you can never trust It plays with your mind It goes on and on It causes problems It you can never stop It goes on and on It divides groups It is wicked It goes on and on It is all these things and It goes on and on One love One God Only one

The Star Spangled Banner By Francis Scott Key 1814 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vaunting

I like this poem Alot so i hope you do to! The sea so vast Like your love The sands are so many Like my sins The sky so big Like your power The plam trees shade me Like your wings over me The diffrent colors of the sunset Are Like the prayers you answer The waves rush over me Like your blood washing me clean All this you made for me I wrote theis after the first time my family went to florida(also my first time seeing the ocean) I was amazed at how beautiful it all was! ~AEG~

So i have been thinking about getting me one of these....and look I did hahahaha I think I'll Just use it to show off my poetry and such, maybe even my long rants I go on so often! right now I'm listening to "You raise me up" and just listening to the words makes me want to cry! ha I know I'm a very emotional person but oh my goodness it speaks to me like God himself is speaking to me! If you guys don't mind I'm gonna "pick it apart" in my own way...I'm gonna tell you what it means to me! When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary; When troubles come and my heart burdened be; Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me this first part is kinda self explanatory.but just to think when things are at their vary worst we just sit and wait for God him self to come and comfort us! it blows me away the he creator of the universe will just come and sit with ME of all people! hahaha... You raise me up, so I can st