Acting

So this blog is mostly about my walk with Christ. I write when I'm overwhelmed with joy, love, yearning, revelation, doubt or grief. But as I was sitting here watching the new show New Girl, I had the huge craving to write about another passion of mine: Acting.

I doubt my acting abilities quite often, especially after I don't get cast in a show. But this past Friday was our first elementary school tour of my show Wiley and the Hairyman. As I was in front of the audience acting with my fellow cast member, Sean, I felt this sensation that ran through my whole body; and I thought to myself this is what I was meant to do. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

There are so many things in this world that I just LOVE. Like: playing the cello, singing, writing, worshiping, boyfriends, and driving. But there is nothing in this world that gives me such an emotional high like acting. Even as I sit in my kitchen writing this blog that no one will read (aside from my mom and handful of theatre friends that saw 'Acting' in the title), and I'm getting excited just thinking about the amazing feeling that being on stage gives me. I love being in front of an audience, but even just taking an acting class and rehearsing with my partner makes me feel fantastic.

I'm not entirely sure if this is just a feeling that everyone has because, deep down, most everyone would like to be an actor. Or if God has just ignited this vehemence in me, and plans on rearing me into a fine actor someday... I don't know. But I do know that when I'm acting, I'm the happiest my soul is capable of experiencing. I'm so happy to be where I am right now. I'm at Mesa Community College with some of the best actors and working for some of the most brilliant minds the theatre business has to offer.

One day I aspire to write plays that will change lives and redefine Christian entertainment. I aspire to sing and to act in these relevant stories, and bring people to Christ through my art.