I seriously ask myself this same question all the time. I look at my personality and my appearances and it honestly doesn't make any sense to me why I would be placed in the role that I am in to do what it is that I have been called to do.
I have come to the realization that I am probably the youngest looking, and quite possibly the craziest youth minister in all of northern California. I am 25 and still look like I'm 16. Don't believe me? Well then I'll have to show you some videos of when I was around that age and believe me the only thing that is different now is that I am not in as good shape as I was and I don't have chronic acne. I have short attention span and sometimes I struggle remaining on the same topics at times because I get so easily distracted but all sorts of shiny things or ridiculous statements that some of my students come up with.
Whenever new students show up to a service I make it a point to let them know these things about me so they aren't surprised and frightened away by how crazy I really am. Sometimes they come back and sometimes they run away. Okay, they don't really ever run away. I just picture that in my head sometimes when I get a look from a student that says something like, "Where the hell did this freak come from."
Well no matter how short, crazy, weird, young, energetic, or boring I am this is where I am and this is what God has called me to do. So, here I go!
B.
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