Reflections Tag

    I'm BAAAACK!!! *slides in with a grand entrance* Sorry this post is, like, a week late (or is it???). As you can see, I'm still trying to figure out a stable blogging schedule. XD (And with school wrapping up, life's been slightly crazy.) But hopefully I'll have consistent posts coming in by 2076. Kidding, kidding, not really. (Fun fact: I just realized that America will be 300 years old that year...and I'll be in my 70s.) XD

    But ANYWAY. Enough of my rambling and unnecessary history lessons. Today, my good friends, I'll be sharing another FABULOUS TAG!!!!! This one is SUPER awesome because I was officially tagged for the first time by the AMAZING, ONE AND ONLY Joy Caroline!!! You can conveniently find her awesome blog HERE! I'm nice like that. XP

Yes, I was inspired to make a graphic too, after seeing JC and Grace A. Johnson do one! 😉 

 

   Here are La Rules:

• Thank the person who tagged you (Thank you again, Joy!)
• Share eight ways God has blessed you and/or things he has taught you this past year
• Tag five or more bloggers

    And here we go! 

    

    #1 God blessed me with the blogosphere

    Most of you already know the story behind this (and if you don't, you can go to this post) so I won't get too detailed here! But I will say again, diving deeper into the blogging community really helped me this past year (especially with the pandemic going on) and it was a HUGE BLESSING getting to know each and every one of my blogging friends out there! (YoU kNoW WhO yOu ArE.) I honestly don't know why you guys would wanna be friends with this crazy KotLC, Star Wars, Marvel, parenthesis obsessed gal who doesn't know when to stop talking (like right now) and has a very bad habit of procrastinating life, BUT thank you a million times anyway!!! Y'all have made such a big difference in my life!

    #2 God taught me to trust Him more

    Last year I experienced a bunch of new things (besides the virus) 😉 that REALLY taught me to have to trust God more. For example, in December, one of my relatives had a huge medical emergency on Christmas Eve and we weren't able to do anything but wait and pray for the outcome. That was a really hard and trying time, but it taught us to trust God even in the most difficult moments. (And because of Him, everything thankfully turned out okay!)

    #3 God taught me that change isn't always bad

    This one kinda ties into #2 in a few ways. While the medical emergency made our Christmas a little different, the day before Christmas Eve made the rest of the week even more crazy! That morning my sister woke up to find a leak in the upstairs bathroom which not only destroyed the inside of the sink, but also soaked through the floor and into the kitchen ceiling. 😐 Yeah. MERRY CHRISTMAS! Soooo, long story short, we definitely had to change up our Christmas plans that year, but honestly, I don't see it as the worst Christmas ever. It was just different. And because of that, I learned, more than anything, that change isn't always bad. More often than not, it's actually good! Because most of the time, it teaches us to be flexible and to not always rely on our plans. Instead it teaches us to rely on God's plans. And his plans are always the best ones of all! (Also, I had my very first white Christmas that year which TOTALLY made up for everything that happened!) XD

    #4 God blessed me with a new church

    This...was probably the biggest change that happened to me last year. When the big ol' lockdown happened, our in-church services switched over to online and that actually made us interested in watching other online churches too. Then, on Easter, my dad turned on the service of a church some of his co-workers go to, we started watching those church services on Sunday morning instead, and eventually my mom and dad felt that God was calling us to this new church. Wrapping my head around the idea of leaving our old church and friends was really hard at first, but soon God helped me make peace with it and adjust to this new church better. I will admit, it's still going to be a long process with getting connected better into this church and making friends, but we have met a few people and officially became members last week! (Also, it turns out one of our friends from our old church started coming to this new one too, so that's been another way God has shown His faithful hand throughout all of this!)

    #5 God blessed me with my Spanish classes

    YES, GUYS. I actually like something about school. XD But seriously, I started learning Spanish this year and am doing it through this curriculum that is specifically designed for homeschoolers! You actually schedule online classes (like with Google Meet) and are taught by a teacher from Guatemala, so you not only learn how to read and write in Spanish, but you can also speak it with someone who is fluent in it! That said, it's been so cool learning this language and getting to know some of these amazing teachers!

    #6 God blessed me with Between the Lines

    For those of you who don't know what Between the Lines is, it's a Fantasy novel I'm currently working on (as in very slowly working on) XD and God gave me the inspiration to write it last year! It all began when I started to wish that book characters could be real. As in COME TO LIFE. ('Cause wouldn't it be AWESOME if, like, you could be BFFs with Keefe from KotLC?) XD Anyway, I started to ponder on that some more and came up with the idea of writing a book where that actually happens! So that's what BTL is about--a teenage girl who's a writer that stumbles across a magic book and accidentally wishes the main character of her story to life. There's some other details too (like a power-hungry, revenge-seeking, 500 year old wizard that's out to kill off the MC's family line) but I'm working on getting a page up that talks about my WIPs so Imma zippin' my lips on anything more! I really do think though that writing this novel (even if it takes me till I'm 90 to finish it) will help me to grow in things like having more compassion and considering what it's like to be in someone else's shoes (which are two major themes in the book). Because unless we're that person we're usually not going to completely understand what one is feeling. But we can try to be more open-minded to others and, as I said, compassionate with them. So that's something I think God might help me learn to do better while writing this! 

    #7 God blessed me with archery lessons

    Aaaaaand that's all I'm gonna say! Hehehehehe I have a super fun post coming up (hopefully soon) about my first two archery lessons and I don't wanna spoil anything! But do feel free to let me know if that post would be something you'd be interested in reading!

    #8 God blessed me with getting to know two of my friends better

    Soooo, I have these two friends of mine (they're sisters) and last year we surprisingly got so much closer (even with the virus). They do co-op with my sisters and me at our house each Friday and (after we figured out how to meet safely and all) we were still able to do that pretty consistently last year! During that time, when we weren't really able to see our other friends that much, we grew soooo much closer and I've really learned to understand what being sisters-in-Christ means and feels like! 😉 Not to mention they know how to sword fight and do martial arts which is like the CoOlEst ThInG EvEr.  XD

    So there we go! Eight ways God blessed me and what He taught me this past year! Now I taaaag...

• Brooklyne @ Showers of Blessings
• Liberty @ The Elegant Cowgirl
• Julia @ Lit Aflame
• Sierra @ Journey Promises
• Jen @ Living Outside of the Lines

    If any of you have already done this tag, then you don't have to do it again! XD But if you haven't, I'd love to see what you come up with! I hope you guys enjoyed this post and thanks for reading!!

Tally-ho!

    What's something God taught YOU this year? Is anyone interested in reading more about my WIP? Who liked the graphic I made? About how old might you be in 2076? Tell me all about it in the comments!