Passion

I thought it was quite interesting that I was reading in the paper that the theme for the opening of the olympics was "Passion." I had been thinking about Passion a lot lately - and someone told me one day recently that she had read something that stated that passion was allowed in almost every arena, except for the church. I thought this was interesting, to be passionate about sports teams is cool - to be passionate in the church about God is just weird... I think God created us to be passionate about Him. I read in a book today, it was a book about business practices, but this is still a cool quote: "You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you." I found one thing that ignites my passion - Jesus. I think Jesus wants to ignite passion in everyone, if only they were willing.
I never used to be passionate about God - but the more I develop a relationship with Jesus and spend time with him, talking to him, praying, reading the Bible, listening to him, the more I fall in love with him and am passionate about him.

--by the way, this is a picture of my friends in Washington. They are GREAT people who I like a lot! They are passionate people. Even though the two guys heads are shaved, they aren't cult people. :) They just like bald heads, its a cool thing to be bald or something.