Redeemed Bohemianism

Once I settled into college life I realized that I wasn’t exactly thinking like the average collegiate student. I noticed that I had been given a variant mindset. I wasn’t always on the same page with the mainstream salmon swimming up river but I know that part of that alternativeness was my wanting to be different.

In the thick of youth and in the thrust of a trapped nature I was guilty of just being abnormal for the sake of being strange and liked the odd attention and curious gazes.  However, as time has found new pages, I see that not all that was immature lip service was stage dung.  As I think back on my life I see that God has given me a true alternative mindset that has transcended the self and myopic focus of my twenties.  And so here I stand… heading an urban missions project that was brought to us by the folks at Katrina – the national nasty babe for all things overblown and flooded.

And so the miraculous providence of the One who is there descended upon my heart and redeemed me from my purposed Bohemianism and has wrought a new perspective among unconventional wings. I begin this blog as a portal into that journey of things living outside the traditional box. I’ve always disliked the box for its fruit was always either sprayed with glowing wax or truly rotting from within with putrid collapse.

The beauty of this sojourn is that once I was able to shred myself of the false dichotomies of secular vs. religious and the strings of radical hyper-fundamentalism where more emphasis was put on whether something was pagan or holy rather than the realization that the Lord is already Lord over all things, I was freed to pursue being salt and light as myself instead of some superficially constructed caricature of what He intended me to be.

I hope that as I pursue this progression into sanctification under the cultural mandate I can see the glory of God in full redemption as the not-yet grinds towards the complete where the mirror loses its dimness and we see all things face to face with the One who has commission so great a work.

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