My thoughts on ...acting

I love acting. Anyone who knows me well knows it. If I don 't get an opportunity to act in a long period of time I get restless. I just do.

I have always loved pretending, just ask my sisters, when I was 3 or 4 I threw my self a surprise birthday party, I played all the guest and myself as my sisters watched from a hidden place laughing at me.

When we lived in Dubuque we put on a few American Girl plays. Felicity twice, once with Rachel, Audrey, Erica and Merry, and once by ourselves. We also did Kirsten and Molly. I played the lead roll in Molly, rather interesting and NOT my best work. Felicity wasn't the only play we've done with the Woods, Little Women (Meg), Pride and P.(Mr. B.) , Austen Vignette's (Harriet), and Sense and Sensibility(Mrs. Jennings), we're played in various living rooms. Those productions have defiantly been my favorite.

Then, of course, there were the homeschool plays, amazing experience. My 3 lines in Anne of Anvonlea were precious to me. 3 lines, ouch, that was defiantly a cut to my pride. Then... there was last year... Erica knows especially about last year, one of the most difficult things I ever did. You see, I felt God just didn't want me in the play that year. Like I said, acting is very important to me, not acting in one of my few opportunities was like on of those black holes in space happening in my life (well it seemed like that at the time).

God had to do a lot of work in my heart around that time, I had quite a few priorities that weren't in the right places. I think God has something for me in my (possible talent) in acting, and I'd really like to use it for his glory. With acting you can be a completely different person, do things you won't usually do, make people laugh or cry, just by changing your tone of voice. Maybe I like it so much just because I can do fun things on stage that you can't do in public, and nobody thinks you're weird:-)

I'm not quite sure why I'm posting about this. Just what I was thinking about.