Who am I?
Well, there’s a few ways that question could be answered. All are true, and together they give a more complete answer.
Here are four possible answers - the vague answer, the analitical answer, my answer, and the most important answer:
The vague answer:
I am me. I’m no one and nothing else. I can’t claim to be anything else, and no one else can claim to be me.
The analytical answer:
I am John Warren, the twenty-two year old son of Kerry and Kathy Warren. I was born in Illinois on January 22, 1988, but grew up in southeastern Oklahoma. I have two sisters, both are older than me.
My answer:
I’m a guy that looks at things through a lens that has been formed by an interesting combination of experiences. Sometimes I feel that I’m living out the old saying that fact really is stranger than fiction. From my parents moving across the country to follow a crazy idea that God had planted in their minds to having a doctor tell me I shouldn’t be alive when I was fourteen to flying across the country to go on a first date with the girl to whom I am now engaged… just to name a few. There’s been good mixed in with the bad – joy with the pain. Both the good and bad have served to give me what I feel is a solid outlook on life, and have strengthened my faith in God.
That’s a little bit of background. As for where I am currently in life:
Last summer, I moved from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. Why would I do something crazy like that? Remember that girl I mentioned in the first paragraph? Well, I didn’t just fly to Chicago to see her. After she graduated and got a job in Wisconsin, I moved up here to be closer to her. Jacqueline and I are now engaged and looking forward to getting married next year.
I try to make God the top priority in my life. He has shown me a lot through different experiences in my life, and I enjoy opportunities to share pieces of that with others. I attend Pathways Church and am on the youth leadership team. Working with the youth group has probably strengthened and encouraged me at least as much as the youth I get to work with. It has really been a blessing so far, and I look forward to seeing God work over the coming years.
I am a very curious person by nature, which makes it easy for me to want to pick up every hobby known to man. Lately, I have been trying to focus a little more. I like working with youth, so I’m involved with the youth group. I like to teach, so I’m looking to getting back into school to get a teaching degree. I like making things and being creative, which comes out in several different ways, but I’m planning to start working more on writing and also hoping this website can play a part in that.
Eventually, Jacqueline and I will probably end up serving as missionaries somewhere. In the mean time, we’re just enjoying the time we get to spend together and trying to prepare for our future together.
That’s me in a nutshell.
The most important and simplest answer:
I am a sinner saved by grace.