I hestitate to ever post things that I am inspired by through @replies on Twitter.
The temptation by most will be to assume that it is directed at that person.
So, I just want to say up front that this post is not about Mr. ragamuffin himself, @loswhit.
But it was inspired by what God convicted me of through my response to his tweet.
I am tired of trying to be cool.
Aren’t you?
I am man enough to admit that I would like to be cool. I have always wanted to be.
Before Jesus saved me in high school I tried, pretty unsuccsessfully to be cool.
After Jesus saved me I found that I redefined cool, but still really wanted to be cool.
So then last week @loswhit and I had a brief twittersation that went like this:
@loswhit : No More Graphic Tees Please. Please. No Seriously. Please.
@shawnwood: @loswhit don’t you have on a graphic tee in your twitter pic? Just sayin’
@loswhit : @shawnwood you ain’t lyin. Just like the good preacher says, “I’m talkin to me just as much as I’m talkin to you”
Now this was just what it looked like. A fun conversation between two tweeps. I know Carlos was just having fun and I was too. But then it got me thinking about my actual first thought when I read Carlos’ tweet.
I am being vulnerable here, but I thought -
“Great, so now graphic tees are ‘out’ – I just started being ‘in’ and now I have to figure out what ‘in’ is again – *sigh*”.
Is that messed up or what?
What if I just be me. Not a massed produced product of the new Christian ’rockstar’ sub-culture that has been birthed in the last few decades but instead allowed God to use the precisely created odd, peculiar, random, not-cool guy that I am to show the world that you can be odd, peculiar, random, not-cool person that Jesus saves and live a life that honors him.
So, this will not surprise anyone but I confess: I am not cool.
I am pretty sure that I will not ever be.
Your probably are not cool either.
You probably never will be.
Ok. So now that we got that out of the way one more confession:
80% of my wardrobe is from ”The Gap”. Yes. That is how I roll.
Filed under: Personal, Random, Spiritual Thought, 10commandments
hummmm… I think you have me beat… almost all of my tee’s now come from WM but I have no cool ones, just warn out ones. I do know I know nothing about what is “in” when it comes to dressing, other than, yes, @loswhit usually knows the right threads to put on
I thought the same thing when I read that tweet. Thanks for making me feel less alone in my desire to be cool.
This post may be one of the most honest and freeing things I’ve read in a while. I love the transparency. And I might add that the majority of what I get is on the sale rack at the Gap…not just at The Gap.
Because cheap is cool no matter what.