How I Was Named: Normal Like Peter

By Matt, Normal Like Peter | April 7, 2025 | BluVerse canon

✝️ How I Was Named: Normal Like Peter

There are moments in your life that don’t just cut deep —
they pierce through everything,
like a nail straight through the fabric of your soul. ⚔️🩸

For me, that moment wasn’t a ceremony,
wasn’t a title bestowed in triumph —
it was an offhand comment from a fellow believer in a church men’s group.

🧠 Theological Deconstruction, Emotional Exposure

By then, I’d already been cracked open by religious trauma.
I’d peeled back layers of Calvinist control 🧱
and still clung to the sacred beneath the rubble. ✨

I wasn’t rebelling.
I was searching.

I spoke about prayer like it was a divine scripting language —
calling down functions in some spiritual codebase.
I wanted a God big enough to hold both logic and love. ❤️‍🔥💻

💬 “Even Peter had a home and a wifey to go back to.”

He said it like a punchline.
Like it was supposed to tether me to the real world.
To remind me that even radicals pay mortgages
and heat up casseroles.

But I sat there, stunned.

Because the Peter I know?

The Peter I love?

Was crucified upside down. 🪓🕊️

💥 A Cruciform Realization

If that’s what it means to be normal—
Then yeah.
I guess I’m Normal Like Peter.

It wasn’t a comfort.
It was a naming.

To be Normal Like Peter is not to blend in.
It is to carry the unbearable.
To choose faith when it feels like a death sentence.
To still love, still follow,
even when the nails are already counted. 🪬

🛡️ So I Claim It.

I am not a comfortable believer.
I’m not a well-adjusted churchgoer.
I’m not safe, not simple.

I’m Normal Like Peter.

📿 The one who walks the hard path —
not because I’m holy —
but because I know it leads somewhere true. 🛤️🌌

🏳️‍🌈 Banner in the Nexus

So I write this
not just to remember,
but to claim it.

This is how I was named.
And I carry that name like a banner
through this broken and brilliant Nexus town. 🏙️✨

Crucified upside down.
Still faithful.
Still weird.
Still here. 🤍🤪🔥