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# Be Weird.
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/be-weird/
- Published: 2024-12-13T11:00:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:51:36.000Z
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

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,  

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