Weird People of Faith

There have been times in my life that I have been called weird.  Of course, those were mostly because of goofy things that I did that girlswould see and say, "You're so immature and weird!"  I never minded because I was enjoying myself too much to try and live up to someone else's definition of normal.

But I have known some people (and heard of people) who lived out their faith in weird (non-normal) ways.

• There is the family that bought donuts for the men who came to pick up the farm equipment that the bank was repossessing.  
• Or the woman who started a clothing exchange so that people could trade clothing they no longer used for clothing they needed. She turned her basement into a place to collect the clothes and washed the clothes that needed cleaning! 
• And the man who gave up a promotion because the money and prestige wasn't important to him.  
• A man who turned garage sales into an helping feed orphans in Haiti instead of new big screen TV for his family.
• Or the countless numbers of individuals who gave up what was important to them in order to serve others.

 In history there are so many - Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr, St. Patrick and many others who decided that living the normal life was not what God would call them to live.  They lived the life of the Kingdom of God because that was what God asked them to do.  Their lives were beyond normal.  They were enjoying themselves to much to try and live up to someone elses standard of normal.  They were weird - in a good way.