Passion, Love, and Heart....

As I start to move into the next phase of my life, I am surrounded by questions and thoughts of what is next. What am I going to do that is going to impact society or stir my heart to not just make a profit? How do I go about finding something like that? The thing is that there isn't a way or a test you can take. In my opinion there isn't a specialist (earthly that is) that can ask you questions and spit the answer out to you. It's something that you have to ask yourself where your heart is, where your passion is, and what do you love to do. Money has no bearing on it. Your friends can help but you are the one that ultimately has the only answer. Not knowing isn't a failure and it might be awhile before you embrace it. But we can find it.

Like I said before money has no bearing on it. If it is truly what you are passionate about and your heart is in it then money shouldn't matter. You don't do it for the recognition or the accolades. You don't do it for the reward because these things result in greed and envy for more. those are the things that come from the dark parts of world. When we are doing it from the heart, that feeling we can't explain that comes from deep down inside then it shines like a light that we can see but affects the world around us. And if we are living to make the world around us better then what are we living for? If we arent living to share our love and passion with others around us then why do we create relationships?

For I do not know my paths destination, I do have a course and a direction and that right now is enough for me. Im excited for what catches my heart in the near future and what i begin to pour my passion and love into. All I can do now is lean on the Lord my father and wait for his guidance.

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps." Proverbs 16:9

Living Life to the Fullest....

What is it that brings us Joy in life? What times do we cherish and really see the detailed morsels of goodness that are entrapped in each one? Do we search so fast for new moments of satisfaction that we dont even recognize why the former moments were so comforting? And to go even deeper, what is it about these spots in time that causes us to search earnestly for the rest? Sometimes I am reminded that its not about the future but the moment and really recognizing and seeing the reason for smiles, for laughter, for tears of Joy and pain, for embrace, for insignificance, for language barriers broken, for social barriers broken, for reuniting, for comfort, for rest, and for peace. If you could pause a 4 hour period at different moments would you understand the moments you experience better. I know I would. Maybe this is why photographs touch me and affect me the way they do. That the thousand things going on in a single moment affect and produce the one true moment in our minds.

I watched a movie last night that was a roller coaster of emotions and feelings. At times it would go in to slow motion or zoom in so much that you could only see the one thing going on that was in focus. I started to notice the difference in smiles, atmospheres, emotions, weather, and even thought or ideas going on. It began to wrestle in me a comparison to my own life and similar situations down to the littlest detail. I began to think of all the times I had not truly embraced and seized the moment for what it was, but instead just took in that fact that it was something that I naturally searched for as a human being. Then it hit me.... How Truly wonderful and Majestic is Our God. That he would in the creation of being, put such complexity in to the very workings of a moment in time. That he could reveal himself and make examples of himself in everything I thought about when breaking it down in detail.

Just in this same way do we over look the Lord's work in our lives, or the guidance for us on our walk. We get so caught up in the moment that we dont cherish the moment for what it is. We are so busy running the next thing that we dont take time to really sit and dwell in what God is doing in our lives. We react irrationally and dont hold true to the promise that with the Lord, all things work for Good.

"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." -Colossians 2:2 & 3