Passions

Passions bring us alive when we're immersed in them. They're more than interests. They tug at our hearts when we hear something that has the least bit to do with them, and make our hearts throb when we pursue them. It's not just something we're well-versed in or something we've mastered. Rather, a passion is ours when we bring that subject alive--even if we're not well-versed in it. And there's a paradoxical symbiosis, because it masters us before we can bring it alive.

It's the thing or things we can talk and talk about, and at the same time the thing that might make us drift from everyday conversation with a dreamy look in our eyes, it can make us gregarious or silence us.

Maybe we cry sometimes because we don't know what it is, or we know all too well but we can't pursue it. But God knows. He knows.

"For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb." ~ Psalm 139:13