Passionate Living

One doesn’t have to be a romantic to live passionately. But, let me ask this question. Why can’t we be as intense and passionately excited about the best things in life as we are over the more base and unsavory events? Why? Both love and hate have incredible transforming powers, but only one produces good fruit. 

I’ve seen too many fundamentalists and zealous religious individuals becoming the very thing that they hate and have fought against. The devastation of 9-11 brought out some of the worst things in us. When pondering how the enemy could have been so callous to kill civilians and children in the twin towers, we became so obsessed with the evil that we became it.

Abu Ghraib became one of the pieces of evidence with the many accounts of abuse, torture, sodomy and homicide of prisoners held in the prison in Iraq.

The One who created the universe did so with LOVE!

Love is passionate living, but war and intolerant religion is the other side of the coin and it’s butt ugly! All of creation has a purpose and carries some of the image of God, so why kill it? Why even hate or dislike it? It’s ALL God.  Love transforms and is tranformative. Until one experiences love (not from a definition or discussing it), little POWER can come from us.

Some of the greatest miracles are depicted in the book of Acts. It’s the ACTS of the Spirit (power) and not once do you find the word LOVE in the book. Why? They living LOVE, they didn’t talk about it.

Whatcha living today? You, the one sitting here reading this? Now, go love someone.