What are you?
What am I?
How can you know what I am until you know who I am?
Who I am explains what I am.
But we have little time for knowing who anyone is.
Labels, please.
Declare yourself.
Christian.
Atheist.
Agnostic.
Spiritual.
Buddhist.
Muslim.
Republican.
Democrat.
Libertarian.
Liberal.
Conservative.
Shall I go on?
Busy. Busy. Busy.
Facebook.
Twitter.
Blog.
Texting.
Quick, immediate.
In 280 characters or less, what are you?
But I told you that you can not understand what I am until you understand who I am.
Who I am requires far more than 280 characters.
More than a Facebook comment.
Far more than a blog post.
Who I am requires time.
And effort.
And patience.
Too much work you say?
Then I feel no compulsion to tell you what I am.
The who comes before the what.
Which is all people seem to want to know about me.
Pigeonhole.
Classify.
Categorize.
Label.
Dismiss.
I am far more complicated than your attempts to what me before you who me.
So pigeonhole, classify, categorize, and label me,
but by no means know me.
Bruce Gerencser, 69, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 48 years. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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