Snake

On Saturday, we helped clear land at our church. While we were there our Pastor found a snake. It was a about a 3 foot rat snake. Believe it or not, this was really exciting for me. I know you may be wondering why this would be so exciting to me. The short answer is fear. I will be writing another post soon on the subject of fear and how it completely crippled my life for years, but for now I will just give you the highlights. I missed out on a lot in my childhood because of fear. So now that I do not struggle with fear anymore, I have made a mental list of things I want to do in my life time. Most of the things are things that I would have been afraid of in my past. One was to catch a snake out in the wild. So I seized the moment, got a broken hoe and held the head down and picked up the snake. Believe me I know it sounds silly with me being 29...I even feel silly writing it, but it was a really big deal for me yesterday. Joanna was awesome. She was just as excited for me. I have an awesome wife and she 100% supports me in my dreams and wants me to fulfill all of them no matter how minor some of them are. Mike was great yesterday also. He has been catching snakes since he was ten, but instead of picking on me, he knows what I have come out of fear wise and was so excited for me as well. Anyway, her are the pictures of the snake handling.