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n owd? Especially whe cr a in e ar u yo n he es e even w t fit in? When it com n’ o you ever feel alon do st ju u yo e lik Ever feel pimples, the cracking e you are in a crowd? th — st or w e th is school ice e, high school is a sl m to being a misfit, high so r Fo s. es dn ar in cial awkw le to find your place gg voice, the general so ru st nt ta ns co a are r others, it’s the lines of division , ol of paradise, while fo ho sc gh hi In . ld cliquish wor s to athleticism, from ok lo what can be a very om fr ng hi yt er hes, ey are drawn on ev y growing moustac ad re al e ar everywhere, and th ys gu an of ity. Some freshm ember well a group m re I . ty er academics to matur ub p of . ly on the edge e!), “You’re not a man m t n’ as while others are on w it o, (N e in be t a friend of m some folks seem to , re Su .” girls chanting abou fit is m a ’re y ’re a misfit.You am, the student bod te l al b ot You’re not a boy.You fo e th of in the capta ms too). part of the in crowd— aders. (No doubt, they have their proble in? eerle us? Where do we fit of st re president, and the ch e th t ou ab t But wha
lone. e not a ut ’r u o y , misfit ies abo ou’re a o many mov not to y if t u ds,” es s, b it help ouldn’t mak e of the Ner roll also if e r u ts eveng ood w ck and I’m no Hollyw up, it was “R movies. Ro “Misfits,” and n e h t , g ld a were called growin Ringw at I can If you n I was rable Molly out an album nd, from wh keep e h W . e you se mis he Kinks put ame name. A , and people tty, all tho Be n y, t es ver a io t d n me p by th popular as e , like an Ugly too. In my u . o p r a g g a o s rd fills the er, there was shows are a feel awkwa other folks d ally t o re V y t T la n e , n a d e n m n m e p th s, so hat hap ies a it t f v e u t o is e o y b m m n n , if ith ohn th you ca tell, tee g songs. So ered w e prophets. J emiah t t li is in writ e Bible sts. Jer than th orth, th ch stranger e eating locu d. To make w ’s it woun et mu r what rt whil ion, And, fo s. You can’t g t in the dese al and tightly miah’s isolat ou llow tion Jere odd fe d an odd life , highly emo intensified r e e e v v a li n h t Baptis o a bit of a lo rd seems to was als orse, our Lo sw matter
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telling him that he couldn’t ha ve a wife and fa In fact, he was mily. n’t even allow ed to a wedding. No attend a funera parties for the l or prophet (Jerem 16:1–9). And th iah en, there’s Ezek iel. Poor guy. N was he sent by ot only God to be a pr ophet, but he to act out the also had prophecies in a strange publ order to warn ic way. In the folks abou t the fall of Jeru Ezekiel was to salem, ld to make a lit tle model of th Jerusalem, lie e city of on his side for 390 days, and cake cooked on eat barley human dung (E zekiel 4:11). At times, as if on other a dare, our Lord commanded Ez to clap his hand ekiel s and stamp hi s feet (6:11) or groan loudly (2 to 1:11). No doub t, Ezekiel must felt ridiculous. ha ve Apostles often felt this way to Paul called him o. St. self a fool for C hrist and moa God had made ned that him “a spectacl e to the world angels and men , to ” (1 Corinthians 4). Why were th prophets so od e d? There was a method to the madness, I thin k. By their stra nge behavior, the prophets w ere telling us th at what the world thinks im portant, really, in the end, doesn’t matte r.
