You don’t have a soul.
You are a Soul.
You have a body.
(C.S. Lewis)
So you really want to know more about me, huh?
I’m Amy Jane Helmericks (just Amy, in real life; unless one needs to differentiate). I’m 5’4″, the mother of 3, married 11+ years and back in January of 2010 moved to a sort of hobby farm that I’m still learning to manage (you can follow that story on my ScrapNook blog).
I am a Christian who believes both in God’s sovereignty and in the freedom God laid heavy on us when he allowed humanity the choice of choosing or rejecting him.
I believe we are born broken, live by mending, and that the grace of God is glue.
(a la Eugene O’Neill)
I like words. I like it when things are said *just so,* to great affect; and when I find someone else whose already said it, and better, I prefer to use their words.
That is to say: I like quotes. Lots and lots of quotes.
They make me laugh and they make me think: two of my most-favorite things to do.
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There is great value in the words we say, hear, read and write. They are health to the body and strength to my bones.
You might say it’s a sort of democracy: my default position is that my words have value, so I assume the words of others do as well. I think a lot before some of the stuff I write; I trust I’m not the only one.
Most of all, I recognize the finiteness of my own time and abilities. I will happily be “a dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants,” (Lewis again) because I would be disappointed to be limited only to myself.
