Author: erikabh

I’m not a huge Oprah fan, but I LOVE the Black Eyed Peas! This is neat.

I keep a journal. Pretty often I like to go back and read the different things I’ve written. It’s an awesome way to be able to see God work in your life. You’ll write things that you would’ve never remembered. (And some things you don’t want to remember I’m learning) Doesn’t life change so much? I can’t help but appreciate it. I went back exactly two months to the day today and found this:

“Jesus doesn’t have a problem with us dying young, but when we grow old and have never lived.”

A quote from Loper when she spoke at OVERDRIVE one Wednesday night. Evedentally it grabbed my attention and I scrambled for my journal. All throughout my journal I find things like this. Different details about people, and things I remember about them. Different stories. Different scriptures that God gives to me. Different lesson’s learned. I love it! You should try it!

Dr. Young delivered an excellent message this morning. (Much more on my level than Wallace’s was last night! He’s too smart for me I think) It was a message that I didn’t even realize my heart needed to hear. How are you loving the people in your life? The way you know how to love them, or the way He knows how to love them? Do you show up because it’s your job, or because it’s your passion? Do you make that phone call because the boss tells you to, or because YOU want to? What does your heart really look like when you do what you do? Such an excellent challenge for me. 1 Cor 13: 1-3 hit me hard. Paul makes himself very clear…without love, the right kind of love, we have absolutely nothing.

Something that God has continuously put on my heart lately is the word passion. While there are several different meanings of the word, these best describe my opinion:
PASSION:
1. any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
2. strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.


When I think about passion two things come to mind. The first being basketball. Odd, I know. I can remember when there was a time in my life that everything I was, everything I longed to be revolved around basketball. I was devoted in every aspect. I spend countless hours practicing, memorizing plays, thinking of new plays, anticipating my next game. It consumed me. It was the passion in my life.
Fast forward a few years. While my love for the game is still somewhere in my soul, I’ve come to understand that basketball just wasn’t in the cards for me. I’m a 5 foot nothin white girl, and let’s face it….I couldn’t even touch the net. Today a different word comes to mind when I hear the word passion. It’s the word Christ. I don’t have the time to being to describe how futile my passion for basketball compares to my new found passion. There will be a time in my life when I look back over all these years and I’ll be able to say- He was everything I wanted to be, and everything I longed for- except this time, it will be in the cards for me. His love will remain. Today, He is the passion in my life.


Do whatever it is that you do, find whatever it is you’re looking for, be whoever it is you’re called to be….but don’t do it without passion in your life! Life is too short.