Sunday, November 11, 2007
Passion
If I use the word passion, a million different people would have a million different perspectives on the meaning of the word in their own lives. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this and I've learned there is one thing that most people will agree on: for better or worse, passionate people are much more engaging and easy to listen to than someone who speaks or teaches out of obligation. It seems we all go through some sort of subconscious train of thought when deciding whether or not a teacher, speaker, mentor, or friend is saying something that has to do with us. We are amazing at being able to tune people, and their ideas, out if we in some way desire to. I think that the intangible and holistic quality of passion can be a large deciding factor many times. We always have two thought processes going through our mind: 1. What is it that is being said... 2. Do they actually believe that what they're saying is true, and if so does their life reflect it? The first is something that we do consciously all the time. We get information, we process it and then we attempt to apply it...it's a very linear process. The second is always happening when being engaged by someone, but is rarely noticed. It's heaviest influence seems to always be in the "application" part of the process. Simply put: we won't fully accept an idea or change a way of life if we don't see that someone else has done it and it is safe. This "someone" is usually the person teaching or speaking to us. Do we believe the things we say and tell others to do? Do we live out the truth we claim to know? Do we live out of our passions? It seems like you can't hide it if you don't.
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I was looking at a devotional book and I found this really amazing devotion:
Blessed
If you own just one Bible, you’re abundantly blessed. One third of the world doesn’t even have access to one copy.
If you awoke this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million people in our world who won’t even survive this week.
If you’ve never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you’re ahead of 500 million people around the world.
If you attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, or death, you’re more blessed than almost three billion people in the world.
If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head, and a place to sleep, you’re richer than 75 percent of the people in this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you’re among the top 8 percent of the world’s wealthy.
If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you’re blessed because the majority of the people in the world can but don’t.
If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them, or touch them on the shoulder, you’re blessed because you can offer God’s caring touch.
If you can read this, you’re more blessed than over two billion people in the world who can’t read anything at all.
Just had to post that.
It's really important to actually enjoy what you're talking about to be passionate about it. Well, actually that's pretty much the same thing. But people are definately more interested in what the person's talking about if they seem really passionate about it, no matter what they're talking about. It could be something really boring but if the person seems to be really interested in it, it makes the people liste
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