Let’s be totally transparent here. I’m not always 100% sure what I’m doing. Are you? I mean, really. Reeeeally. If you are, well then you’re awesome. As for me? I’m still figuring it out. So these posts aren’t coming from some perfect expert that knows it all. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and God has shown me so many truths. But I’m always learning and working to figure things out. This site is a place for me to share it all along the way!
Now, here’s the “official” About section that makes me sound like I have it all together.
Holy Made – we are made whole and holy by His love.
Hi ya’ll! My name is Amy and I want to invite you on a wellness journey. On this journey we will rediscover the many natural ways God has provided for us to be good stewards of the temples he has given us to live in.
I’ll be on this journey with you. It’s all about baby steps. I’ve been on this path for almost 15 years, and I’m still learning more each day that God didn’t forget anything when He created us! His provision is vast and deep and long lasting. We just need to rediscover it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for many of the modern conveniences of life. I am not some crunchy off the grid hippie (Though there’s a part of my heart that thinks it would be great!) I’m a typical suburban mom with 4 kids and a minivan. We do our best to eat organic but our budget requires some compromise. I demand our kids play outside everyday, but they still watch too much tv. We eat gluten and corn free but there’s still too much sugar in our diets. So this is a wellness journey do me too. I definitely don’t have it all figured out, but I am eager to learn. Will you join me??
Mission Statement:
To educate and inspire people to live the fullest life possible by understanding that God has made us whole and holy (mind, body, & spirit) – complete in Him.
Vision:
To open people’s eyes, minds and hearts to the fullness of all that God has already provided for us:
– Truths from His Word
– Natural Alternatives of doing things
– that people will listen to their own body, become more in tune with it, and trust in it
– that people will take better care of themselves – that people will encounter true healing and no longer just use bandaids
– as an act of worship and obedience to God to honor the body he has given us, that people would take better care of their temples by reducing toxins, eating better, and exercising more
Founding Verses:
Eph 1:4 Message
How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love
Eph 1:4 Amplified
Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.
Whole passage: Ephesians 1:3-11 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
Whole passage Ephesians 1:3-11 MSG
3-6 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.
7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
11-12 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.
1 Peter 2:9-10 NIV
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
2 Timothy 1:9
He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.
