Comments on: Feeling Like a Misfit – A Dialog With Vinyl Jones from Knapsackheroes – Jason Elkins

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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:58:52 +0000

[...] smile when I think of a group of people uniting under this “misfit banner”. I have written before about how I feel I don’t fit in from time to time, and with this band of renegade employees, unemployed professionals, consultants and independents, [...]

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:35:12 +0000

I really enjoyed this post. I know what it is like to feel like a misfit, and I’ve always suspected there are a lot more people who are covering the fact that they feel that way too! The advice that Vinyl Jones gave to “PRAY, PRAY, PRAY” is so true… It is easy to overlook it, but I always think of Max Lucado’s book, You Are Special, when Eli tells Punchinello to spend time with him. (Eli represents God, and Punchinello represents us “misfits.”) When we spend time with our Father, He tells us – and convinces us over time – that we are pretty special too. What could be better than that!!??

By: Callie

Callie — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:24:21 +0000

Wow – great post, as usual! Hope we can make it out to hear them sometime!

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:13:56 +0000

Thank you, Jason! That piece is FULL of good, GODLY advice! Not unlike you, I have to credit my Dad for my response when I feel like I don’t fit in… When I was a freshman in college I can remember calling home to tell them how lonely I was– that I just “didn’t fit in.” I’ll never forget his response: “So you think you’re the only one?! Start a club!” So, a few weeks later we had the very first meeting of a club for folks that shared in my major… Seems his wise advice is still at work today– hence “Faces of Hope.” That’s why we have the policy that no parent ever needs to apologize or be anxious about their child being anything other than the beautiful creature that God shaped him/her to be….

I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the life in eternity- rumor is He’s building a mansion– JUST FOR ME– JUST MY SIZE!

Love you, Jason! (Love to Shell and your family, too.)

By: John Ingrisano

John Ingrisano — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:42:25 +0000

Nice piece, Jason. I sometimes we all think we’re misfits, mostly because we think we are the only ones struggling with an issue.

I used to think that way in church. I wish someone had told me years ago that I wasn’t the only sinner trying to pass for saint in church on Sunday. No, I do not think that people were being hypocrites; they were just as scared as I was to be ratted out as sinners.

Anyway, good piece. God bless. JRI