Howdy y’all! Quietly entering my cowboy phase lol. Really I’ve just been watching Ryan Trahan’s videos on loop, and somewhere along the way I found myself back here. I’ve realised so much lately how badly I need creative outlets. For me, that’s writing and making videos. So this is step one in the master plan. If I stick to this, which hopefully I will (remember this future self), then I’m hoping to upload a new update or story for y’all to read each Friday. Again this is subject to change, and other forms of currency, but that’s the plan. *cue sunglasses*. That was professional.
Keep readin’ on, partner.
1. ) muddle
Why don’t you just meet me in the– oh whoops my bad pal. Didn’t see you there. This website’s been here for a while, but for a bit, it was called muddle, and I wanted to chat about that a little bit! I created this as one central place for me to share stories and updates about things I was excited about. When I started it, I said this would be a little bit muddled here and there, but it would be authentically me. And I hope that for the most part, that has been true. I haven’t posted much, but what I have posted I’m really proud of. In the two years since I rebranded as muddle, my life has changed a lot, and a lot for the better. God has been so, so good to me, and I have grown so much since then. It’s a funny thing, it feels like the closer you get to the One who created you, the more you feel like yourself.
“Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.”
Jesus (Matthew 10:39)
So in a way, when I started this as muddle, that’s partially how I felt about my life. Now I don’t have it all together and figured out, but as I’ve grown closer to Jesus since then, and rediscovered some parts of me I lost along the way, Jesus has given me clarity about who I am and what I’m called to do. The more I lose my old self to Christ, the more I find my new self in Him. I may not have a roadmap, but I do have a loyal guide. I trust my future to King Jesus and no other. Yes sir, it be like that. *cue sunglasses*.
So now as I’ve rebranded to just a self-titled, “Josiah Kirk,” I just hope for it to be a central place for people to find what I’m working on and for me to share important stuff through. Hopefully that doesn’t make me self-entitled. D:
2. ) change
It’s funny, that’s becoming a common theme here. But I think it’s fitting, that as I grow, my blog grows with me. Like Alice in Wonderland.
Anyways this section is brought to you by someone who has so much they want to do with their life, that they don’t know how to start. And I think that’s okay as long as it doesn’t stop us. Basically this is a pit stop for future me to come back to, and take a moment to see how far I’ve come from where I am right now.
Part of what stops me is fear. And I talk a little bit about that in my first YouTube video, which is up now on my channel!
Change is hard, but if we never change we may never grow. Personal change takes a lot of work, but often it’s just about taking that first step towards who you want to be. With every step you take towards that version of yourself, you get a little bit closer. And it often doesn’t feel like much at the time, but eventually you get to a point where you look back and see all of the ways you’ve grown, and all of the areas God has moved. I don’t pretend to know what the future will bring, but I know that it’s gonna be pretty cool. There’s something exciting in not knowing what’s next. It means that anything could be.
3. ) yee-haw
In just over a month’s time, I’ll be celebrating ten years of blogging and creating stories. As it happens I still have all of my old posts from 2013 and forward archived! So as we approach that, I’ll be setting those posts to public on here and pinning them one by one to the top of the blog! I’ll likely share some commentary separately, but for the most part (except for privacy tweaks lol), these will be coming out completely unedited (and unfiltered). I’m so, so excited for this stuff, and it’s been so fun getting to look back over this stuff and see how much I’ve really done, and how I’ve grown over the years. And guys, God has been so faithful along the way. Genuinely don’t know where I’d be without Him being there every step of the way. There’s a lot still to come, and I’m so looking forward to it. Adventure’s on the horizon, fellas, and it’s gonna be good. P4L and all that.
Stay starchy, my fellow buckaroos, and maybe someday you’ll understand what that means. 😉
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