who i am minus the exegesis

I feel like recently I've been trying to figure out who I am apart from my theology...
It's weird.

My theology is such an immense, powerful, driving, catalystic part of who I am, but one day I realized that if my beliefs are my only source of identity, I am missing out on something.

If you ask me who I am, I might answer that I am a person who wants desperately to work for social justice, a person who finds joy in reading the Bible as a narrative and not as a rulebook, a person who believes that salvation is so much more than we give it credit for.

But what about the parts of me that aren't defined by my theology?
I am also a person who wants desperately to become a better singer and dancer, a person who finds joy in the promise of revolution, in the late 1960s and the freedom that is expressed in living counterculturally with a group of people that you love, a person who believes that a bit of jazz, a dash of wilderness, and a spot of tea are very good remedies for mundane life.

Maybe it's self-indulgent. But I have certainly enjoyed getting to know myself better.

Of course my theology is behind so much of what I do, how I think, and who I am.
But maybe I don't have to rationalize it all out, and instead just embrace the surface of me. If you know me at all, you know that I despise staying at the surface of things... but perhaps it's good to learn how to live at the surface and see just glimpses of what's beneath.

All this to say - apologies if I haven't been too theological lately, I've been preoccupied with discovering what my theology means for me in everyday life.