Wednesday, October 8, 2008

There is a difference between passions that merely entertain you and those that sustain you and feed your soul. There was a time when the word passion referred to either something sexual or something very religious. Passion was a word uttered in a slightly secretive way with a bit of “oh is that appropriate here?” or with a tone of fervor relevant to spiritual conversations. More recently, if you look in any magazine or listen to the radio or YouTube, you will likely hear the word Passion at least once a day. Passion has almost been trivialized when it is used to refer to a passion for collecting glass ornaments, or picking up dropped pennies. On the continuum of passions on one end there are passions that entertain you, such as for watching movies or … On the other end of the continuum, however, there is another realm of much deeper importance and enduring impact on our lives. Passions that feed our soul are those that we will find ways to have in our lives even if we do it in destructive ways.

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