Hi there, My name is Chris. I'm a follower of Jesus, Husband of one, Father to 4, plus some that have adopted us over the years.
While I’m not doing my day job, which doesn't define who I am, I’ve been found taking out trash, occasionally mowing my lawn, cooking for my wife, going on dates with the wife, feeding kids, burping kids, changing kids, feeding kids again (the kids won’t stop eating), wrestling our kids, running away from the kids, playing hide and go seek with the kids and trying to escape for a little bit with the wife to talk about how crazy and wonderful life is.
Since that isn’t enough to exhaust me all the time I’ve been known to: be involved in high school and college aged youth ministry, lead missions trips, do some speaking, be a chaplain at a local water park and hanging out with friends discussing how we can conquer the world with love, and maybe a little humor.
I think that life should be full of love, laughs and adventure…it is my goal to fill my life and the lives of those around with them.
I've been liberated, freed, set free because of Jesus. In a letter called the Epistle to the Galatians, written to a group of fairly new Christians who had previously been pagans, Paul states “It is for freedom that Christ set us free”. Paul, who hated Jesus and his followers experienced this freedom firsthand after he encountered Christ and was freed from his hate. Paul then made it his purpose in life to share with everyone he encountered the joy of what that freedom was. I think Paul was on to something and I do my best to do the same.
I'm a misfit. Merriam-Webster defines a misfit as:
1. something that fits badly
2. a person who is poorly adapted to a situation or environment
I've never really seemed to fit. For many years that bothered me until I realized and accepted that it is OK to not fit. I don't have to fit.
The freedom I have in Jesus frees me to be who I was created to be, misfit and all. I don’t have to fit because I'm capable of living the life that I want to and was put here to live all while being someone who doesn’t fit but can still be a part of life.
