Be Weird.
Thank you for your prayers.
One day I was chatting with my friend
Mark Pierce,
and he said the darndest thing.
"You know,
you are like John the Baptist."
When he said that,
I understood for the first time
part of the call on Belonging House:
to make a way for the coming of the Lord.
Let's face it,
John the Baptist was weird.
I was raised in a part of the United States
that frowns upon being weird.
"We just want you to be normal,"
was the phrase I heard again and again.
I worked for a denomination
that frowned upon being weird.
In the end the need to conform
"and be collegial"
was used as a weapon
to make the whole thing weird,
to disastrous ends.
I am an artist
with a photographic memory,
high IQ,
and a big call from God.
I am weird.
Full stop.
A lot of my life I put a lid on myself
just to fit in.
I'm just discovering that
being blessed by God is not a problem.
Some of you
have been pegged as weird,
because of the extreme callings on your lives,
and the incredible gifts and talents
you were given by God.
And some of you are being bound
not by lack,
but by blessing.
You just can't seem to embrace the fulness
of what God has for you.
Being full color
is weird in a world
that prefers beige carpeting.
There is no beige carpeting in heaven.
You are called to rise and shine
for your light has come
and the glory of the Lord
is rising upon you.
You are called
to make a way
for the coming of the Lord.
And with him
comes light,
sound,
color,
and freedom.
Go ahead,
run ahead of the pack,
and be weird.
He Never Fails,