What Is Your Passion?

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by Bro. Robbins

There is no contradiction between my signature line and what I said. Seems like you always want to argue with anything I post and find fault.

I'm just saying, I think the whole "have a passion in life" is a luxury for some. And there's nothing that says you have to have a passion in life. Some people just live and are content just living a simple life with no frills and nothing they are really passionate about. And that's me, and I'm very, very content. Out of all the people I know at work, church, family.... there are very few that have a passion, but most of them seem very content with their lives without one. My acquaintance made is sound as if someone without a passion was somehow depressed, opressed, and lacking... and I don't believe that is true in all cases.

By the way, never said I didn't have things in life that I loved....that's a different topic... I said I don't have a passion in life. Big difference.

Bro Robbison I am not 'arguing' with you. You asked a question and I am trying to help you answer your question. I live a VERY simple life but I find pleasure in watching grass grow. So simple does not equal boring or discontented.

One of the keys for me in how I saw your post was that you repeatedly refer to your life's activities as 'obligations'... the antithesis of 'passions'. I too work nearly 50 a week off farm in a hospital. I spend time helping people transiton from health to sickness and sickness to helath. I find great joy in that. I did not list it as a passion because I am currently trying to leave it to farm full time and I didn't want to sound like a big blow-hard... but actually I love my work. It is not that my job is just so great... It's an attitude. I realize that God could have made the world any way He wanted but he did not make it just for us to subsist He made it for us to flourish!

Whatever we do should be done for His GLORY.
My answer is if you do not feel passionate about what you are doing, perhaps you are not doing what God intended for you to.

In example, you are a minister correct? But admittedly not passionate about it. I would like to suggest a book to you, "Called and Sent or Just Went", you can find it here:

http://pentecostalpublishing.com/node/3899

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

Bro Robbison I am not 'arguing' with you. You asked a question and I am trying to help you answer your question. I live a VERY simple life but I find pleasure in watching grass grow. So simple does not equal boring or discontented.

One of the keys for me in how I saw your post was that you repeatedly refer to your life's activities as 'obligations'... the antithesis of 'passions'. I too work nearly 50 a week off farm in a hospital. I spend time helping people transiton from health to sickness and sickness to helath. I find great joy in that. I did not list it as a passion because I am currently trying to leave it to farm full time and I didn't want to sound like a big blow-hard... but actually I love my work. It is not that my job is just so great... It's an attitude. I realize that God could have made the world any way He wanted but he did not make it just for us to subsist He made it for us to flourish!

Whatever we do should be done for His GLORY.
My answer is if you do not feel passionate about what you are doing, perhaps you are not doing what God intended for you to.

In example, you are a minister correct? But admittedly not passionate about it. I would like to suggest a book to you, "Called and Sent or Just Went", you can find it here:

http://pentecostalpublishing.com/node/3899

I think it depends on how you define "passion." There may be a disconnect there.... To me, "passion" is the driving force behind most our choices (although many things are simply responsibilities), and so I see what people do and I assume these are the things they are passionate about.

There are times when our choices have led us away from our passions and IMO, that's when we need to reevaluate and organize our lives to include the things, people and experiences that matter.

Of course, we can't expect our whole life to be full of excitement, either. We survive the humdrum so that we can enjoy the special moments and special people. That's life.