You’re Peculiar

Posted on October 17, 2019 by mitchteemley

blessed-are-the-weird

It was 1999 (as in “party like it’s…”). I was wearing khakis and a polo shirt, and was about to do a reading of my autobiographical poem Fool’s Odyssey for a room full of clove cigarette-smoking hipsters, identically clad in tight black clothes. I stepped up to the microphone and mumbled, “Sheesh, I feel so normal,” and they burst into applause. And then I knew I had them. Because I was, in fact, the weirdest person in the room.

“You are a chosen generation…a peculiar people, uniquely suited to show the goodness of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” ~1 Peter 2:9

About mitchteemley

Writer, Filmmaker, Humorist, Thinker-about-stuffer
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31 Responses to You’re Peculiar

  1. nancyehead says:
    October 17, 2019 at 11:43 am

    Be weird. It keeps people wondering. God bless!

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  2. Vernon Miles Kerr says:
    October 17, 2019 at 11:43 am

    That’s some good writing. 🙂 If I remember correctly, old Pete was a blustering “weirdo” too, yet Jesus chose him to be the foundation “rock” upon which the Christian movement was built. I’ve read some translations of Matthew 16:18 that say, “You are [pebbles] but upon this [rock] I will build my [called-out ones]”

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  3. Kim Smyth says:
    October 17, 2019 at 11:48 am

    Glad to be included in this prestigious group! 😉

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  4. Gary Fultz says:
    October 17, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    Oh fun Mitch, they had you right where you wanted them.

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  5. Eliza Ayres says:
    October 17, 2019 at 12:09 pm

    Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.

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  6. leesha0304 says:
    October 17, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    Love this! It’s the weird ones that make life interesting and fun! 🙂

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  7. riverlifepsalms1 says:
    October 17, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    Thanks Bro. Mitch! Abba used this message as a very timely confirmation!!

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  8. JOY journal says:
    October 17, 2019 at 2:19 pm

    Snap, snap, snap…

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  10. revruss1220 says:
    October 17, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    Praise God for those who dare to be weird. They add the spice to the soup of life.

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  11. fipwmum says:
    October 17, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    I am so glad God chose the “weird” ones including me lol

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  12. joseph elon lillie says:
    October 18, 2019 at 10:09 am

    My sister posted that meme to her facebook profile about a month ago. The artists amongst us often feel pushed to the outer rim. Perhaps that is because in some way we prefer it there in spite of the pain it causes.

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  14. pick1solution says:
    October 19, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    And here I thought that Normal was in Oklahoma.

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  15. Mellow Curmudgeon says:
    October 23, 2019 at 9:54 am

    Love the irony.  In a room full of “identically clad” hipsters who all smoke clove cigarettes and may well think of themselves as nonconformists, the “normal” guy is the weirdo nonconformist.  Glad U could make the point in a gentle way that provoked applause rather than defensiveness.

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