Passion

Passion drives us! It fills us and pushes us ever onward, through every trial and struggle. We need it as much it needs us to have a purpose. We feel it in the adrenaline-filled moments that define our lives, and yearn for it in the ordinariness of daily life. Yet where does it go? How in the world does it leave, and where does disembodied passion have to go? Who can it inhabit? These are things we cannot know, and yet we do know when it is there, we know when it fills us, and interestingly enough these occurrences can be pinpointed and linked to certain activities or pursuits in our lives. This is a topic I continually return to, because I feel it is so extremely critical.

Our bishop spoke this past weekend on hearing and following the call of God, and how doing so brings great peace into our lives, and that following our own will or the will of the Evil One will only bring us an ever more profound feeling of desolation. Why in the world would we seek the latter? I would posit that not only does following the will of God bring peace, it also brings passion! It brings with it the pursuit of something greater than ourselves. It is in these moments that we forget ourselves and really look to the joy of those around us that we feel this sense of peace and are filled with these feelings of passion.

I want all of you to have passion in your lives! Chase your dreams and do what you must do in your lives to feel fulfilled! Follow every possibility, pursue every opportunity and never hesitate to improve yourself and yet always look to those around you. Seek love with temperance, success with magnanimity, joy with generosity!