Rediscovering You.

At the beginning of this summer I asked God to show me Him! I went through a time of Him teaching me to be on my own. I went through really hard time were even my Timber Lakes family couldn't help me! It was vary hard to be away from home and going through a storm of life! I told my mom this morning that this summer was God taking twigs by twigs out of the nest so that one day I will be able to go away to collage or be on my own and not miss home so much... I was in the mountains of Colorado and doing my quiet time and the song "Beautiful Sound" by the Newsboys came on my MP3 player. and it hit me like a ton of bricks! God brought me to Timber Lakes and Colorado to rediscover who He is! I grew up in the church I knew all the right things to say and when to say them! but it wasn't until I was 9 till I "got saved". then past that I didn't start living( I mean really live...lay my life down live for the lord) till the last year or so! I didn't know the real God! I didn't know my maker! a week ago tonight I wrote a journal entire about this summer and some things that went on and the last half of it went like this...



Getting to know who You really are
You laughed with me
You cried with me
You held me
You protected me
You guided me
You showed me You!
"Rediscovering You"


"I think I asked You Dad to show me You at the beginning of this summer. And You have! BLESSED BE YOUR NAME!"


it's funny how God answers prayers! no... not funny.... AMAZING!!!

I will leave you with my favorite line of "Beautiful Sound".....or maybe the whole thing! hehehehe....

Turn the page.

Can't turn the light out.

Every word, every line

Carries to my soul.

Dark letters on a page

Singing so loud.

Where did I go wrong

Not to hear You?

Eighteen years,

I guess it was all right.

I let You do the thinking,

I'd just bide my time.

Father to sonSunday hand-me-down.

Where did I go wrong

Not to hear Your song?

It's a beautiful sound

Moving through the crowd.

Voices lifted up

On high for You.

It's a beautiful song.

We've only just begun to understand.

Rediscovering You.

To have found You, and still be looking for You,

It's "the soul's paradox of love."

You fill my cup, I lift it up for more.

I won't stop now that I'm free.

I'll be chasing You

Like You chase me.

It's a beautiful sound

Moving through the crowd.

Voices lifted up

On high for You.

It's a beautiful song.

We've only just begun to understand.

Rediscovering You.

The end.

what God has called me to do with my summer!

Okay I'm going to start this story off in 2005. I went to a camp in Kansas to work as what they call a "teen staff" I worked in the kitchen and on the grounds crew. This was WAY before my parents even thought about the disciple driven church! I loved it! I loved it so much I was thinking of how to put my life into something like that! The next year I was planing on going back! BUT God told me to sign up for this leaders in training at Calvary church and they sent me to Mexico for a week so we could build a house! I loved it so much I was trying to think of how to put the camp lifestyle into Mexico and whatnot! I went through a year of being discontent and wanting to go back to ether Mexico or Kansas! I finally gave it to God and I finally loved being home in my Missouri. Then my dad leaves my church and shakes up my world and God uses my dad's passion for what he is doing to change my heart! This brings us to 2008, this year!

I start off the year on a Florida beach giving the year to God! then I gave my summer to Him. A month or 2 goes by and I get set free from lots of stuff! One night I have this dream. and in it I get something from the camp I worked at in 05 and its an application and then I pick up a plain piece of paper but I know its another application and the dream ends. My church G.C. was going thought this time of trying to find a place to serve, and we had been having a prayer meeting every week to pray about different things and this one week we were praying about this. A couple weeks before I was having trouble with my spiritual gifts (pastor mercy hospitality and serving) they just didn't feel right! In this week God spoke to me and said "your true heart is in serving people." and my heart agreed! I had always been happy when serving others! This was after I went thought the 7 steps to freedom. I took the spiritual gifts test again at a training that was held in Kansas, and it turns out that I am a serving, hospitality,helps, mercy. The day of this test we were having lunch in the cafeteria and I felt the Holy Spirit tugging at me and I said here I am he said "you are going to work here this summer now go ask!" so I went and asked and so I'm going to work at a camp in Kansas this summer! God confirmed it with bringing that dream back up and told me through my dad that the application I couldn't see was the application to the camp I'm working for this summer! So this is what happens when you give God your summer! Try it some time, your like it!
So hear I am 3 days before I leave wanting to go but SO not wanting to leave my friends and family! Pray for me!


~AEG~

69

I wrote this poem on the way back from meeting with Richard Green, in Indiana. I often get inspired by Gods creation and this time it was the clouds, and words to a GREAT song(nothing but the blood!). this is a picture that i took of the Indiana sky.

69

Every bump of 69 gets to me

with every hit you get to me

every lyric of this song gets to me

with every note you get to me

every verse of the bible gets to me

with every line

you get to me

with every thought

you get to me.

P.S. Bob there you go! hope you like it!

Got to love missouri weather!

So I loved today! really I did! summer 74 and sunny, spring 60 and sunny, fall 50 and rainy, and last but not least winter 12 and snowy! isn't it great!

well I just wanted to post before the end of the month! This year so far has been AMAZING!!Spending new year on the beach was great. God has been confronting me with A LOT of stuff every little thing I hand over to him he gives me something right back! Obedience=blessing! And that is what is going on with me! happy/clear minded/fearless Amy is what you get from now on! you better watch out!


~AEG~

P.S. I got my hair cut! I will try to get pictures up soon!

New year....New book!

Hey y'all I'm back from Florida! and i just wanted to tell you about my new cook book! it's called The Man's Cookbook! and you can go here and look at it and maybe if you like it you can buy it!

http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=1692412


tell me what you think!



~AEG~

This christmas.

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 is no longer Christmas morning to the "Gap" it's holiday morning what next????

A lesson from my past.

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 just don't....why? I don't know....but that has to change! It will change! My sunrise has come!