Happy New Years!

Hello to all of you! Thanks for returning to my blog once more. It is January 1st, start of a new year, 2017. How exciting! Seeing as to how 2016 went, I pray and hope this year turns out better. Sure, lots of good stuff happened last year, also lots of bad.

Anyways, I hope we can all learn from our mistakes in 2016 and happily say goodbye to the year.

Now I would like to set my attention to this upcoming year. As you know from my introductional post, I mime. I am part of a Christian mime discipleship group, and I love it. I have grown so much but now am at a period with this group that I find particularly hard.

Us older mimes were given an assignment back in October that is to create a mime that tells our testimony. I might make a post about the direction I want to take with this mime, but that's for another time. When I first heard this assignment my stomach just turned to lead and I was legit freaked out. I had no clue what to do. Fast forward to now and I have some planned out... not enough though I'm afraid. This assignment has caused me so much stress for the past two months and I don't even know why... well, I didn't know why until today.

For the past week or two I had come to the conclusion that I didn't want to do this and that I just wouldn't do it. If it got me kicked off the team so be it (yes, that is how much I dislike this assignment) Then, our pastor preached a sermon today that went right along with what I've been thinking about and dealing with recently (isn't it funny how God works that way?). His sermon was basically about how if God is in a church, it cannot be dead. If He is working in that church then He has plans for it. Same with us Christians.

God always has a plan for us and sometimes, we're not going to like it, especially if we're stubborn, which I am. I realized today that I haven't been letting God lead me in this project and because of it, let my anxiety and stubbornness get in the way.

This post is getting too long, so let me sum up all of this rambling. My goal for these next few months is to let God take control and help me plan this mime. If it makes me uncomfortable or nervous or embarrassed so be it. I've been stubborn for much too long about giving this part of my life to Him and what better time to start besides now?

Happy New Years, you guys!

I guess I should introduce myself!

SO!, hello all and welcome to my blog. I have a few blogger friends (see their blogs on the right) that suggested I try this, so here I am. I decided since this is my first post I will enlighten you on some interesting (interesting? does that sound vain?) facts about myself. I'll shoot for 10 facts and we'll see what we get ;)

~1. My name is Isaac and this is my first attempt at blogging so bear with me

~2. I'm homeschooled, and love it. Wouldn't want it any other way.

~3. I'm a Christian and wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for my faith.

~4. I am a member of a Christian mime group, where we silently act to Christian songs in order to share the gospel. We meet weekly to have fellowship, practice, do a bible study, and engage in discipleship.

~5. I raise Holland Lop rabbits and I'm a member of ARBA (American Rabbit Breeders Association).

~6. Raising and learning about animals and agriculture is one of my passions. I've been working with animals since 2008. I've owned quail, chickens, and rabbits.

~7. My favorite book series is the Percy Jackson series, with the Heroes of Olympus coming in at a close second.

~8. My favorite sports are soccer and ultimate frisbee (yes! It is a sport!). I also really enjoy playing capture the flag.

~9. I actually really like school, my favorite subjects being geography and science.

~10. I currently run a farm, Shady Branch Farm (check out our Facebook page) and have high hopes for it. We may or may not be getting sheep soon ;)

~11. (I'll include eleven for good measure) I can speak a little bit of German, sometimes I like it more than English...

Alrighty then this is probably longer of a post than I'll usually be posting, but it's about me so it was worthwhile (urgh... being vain again). Signing off for now!

Auf Wiedersehen! (German for goodbye)