Pass it on's meme for the day on Purpose and Passion, March 30, 2023.

 

Passion!

 

If you can channel your passion productively, then you'll go far in life, but otherwise, it seems to push so much of us into harm when misdirected.  Indeed, as such, the alcoholic becomes passionate about beer, or the tyrant, passionate about power and control; as such, we can only hope to remain mindful of applying our talents and efforts towards something mutually beneficial.

having passion for something and pushing on.

 

on our families being unsupportive

An unforgiving unsupportive family brings us pain such as the adage, "with pain most often comes blood".

All we can do is fight the feelings of bitterness and pray for them, wish them well in the hopes that tomorrow the bridges will be repaired, the relationships mended, and love and companionship can once together rule.

Oprah on passion and energy.

 

Seneca on "now".

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." 

Seneca

 

a heaping, bulging barrel of fun.

 

Confuseus: the selfsame waters

Confuseus say, "same water that nourish man, and drown baby, make tree grow strong, but then too, it rotwood."

Tree and the roots.

 

Going to buy some Mr Peanut.

 

March 20 2023 is the first day of spring here in the southeast usa.

 

The changing of seasons can bring about a perceptible mood change or an energy balance change in some people; if you're one of those, enjoy the moment!

If not, be renewed, if not strengthened, and enjoy the spring: the sunshine, the new blooms, the spring rains.

The prettiest flowers... on "fertilizer".

Some of the prettiest flowers spring forth from the soils of the nastiest mess.

Imagine it.  All those pains and heartaches, hatred, guiles, sharp words.  All precipitate in us learning from our mistakes and being fueled ahead to even better things.

Rick Warren on Pain.

 Every pain in your life is an opportunity to grow in character.

-Rick Warren

Christogenesis March 14, 2023

"Early twentieth century biologists realized that biological systems are open, autopoietic (self-organizing), complex and emergent, revealing one long truth:  life seeks more life.  God is ahead of us, not behind us, and if we refuse the reality of a self-involving God, we risk everything."   -Center For Christogenesis

 

"A tree is known by its fruit."

 

Time enough...

from passiton.com

 

The prettiest people tend to do pretty things.

 

personal spaces.

 

It's our own personal spaces that some of us take for grant, polluting it with hate and ill-feelings, self-loathing and other negativities.   With the advent of social media, we've intermingled some of that, and put so much of our pollution into a semi-public space, via complaints and hard feelings.

Feel your spaces with love, and its like a blanket.

one more day.

 One more day, Lord; one more day, friends, to contend, to live and give, to nourish.

One more day to get it right, praise God.

Pass It On: Teddy Roosevelt on the power of belief.

 

The blessing.

It is good for us to remember how strong He is—and how weak we are.  

-AW Tozer

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