weird

Last Sunday during the meeting, Todd Pulisfer said something that stuck with me all week. It wasn't directly related to the message, but I'm glad he threw it in there:

"They already think you are weird, why not start acting like it?"

I don't like to be considered weird. I have gone to great lengths to demonstrate how normal I am. It's just that...well, it's not working.

This week at Chapters I picked up a little book in the 'Christianity' section called "Weird". It challenges this very notion of trying to be normal when Jesus and the Kingdom He preached are anything but ordinary.

I don't know how weird "they" think I am. (For me "they" is primarily those I work with who see me close up day after day.) Likely, they know I am different, but they don't know the specifics of what that means in my life. What I want is for them to not just think I am strange, but to notice the weirdness and find it attractive. I want them to see my life is different from theirs but in a positive way. Attractively weird, if you will.

So I am just starting, but this week I talked about some personal things I wouldn't normally...things I am walking through that are "normal" things, that I know I will walk through differently than they would simply because of the work Christ has already done in me. I will try to talk about how I make decisions, what I do with my time, etc.

I guess they will go on thinking I am strange unless I show proof of something alternative.