I was walking the dog this morning and the nose was in gear.
Up in the air, working hard. So hard I’m amazed she doesn’t get a cramp in it, or a foreign object. We’ve jokingly described her as a nose with a transport system. That is who she is, what she does, and what she does when she is happy.
There are lessons here for all of us…
Find the passion that defines you.
Give yourself to it daily.
Don’t let others convince you that you should have a different passion.
Don’t let others take it from you by denigrating your passion or by substituting their passion for yours.
Don’t let circumstances keep you from living out of your passion, even if circumstances don’t allow you to give it expression in quite the way you hoped.
And remember, we were made to live our God-given passion, so delight in it.
If you don’t live out of that passion today, it will never be expressed quite the way it was meant to be expressed.
Who are we if not who we are? As hard as we may try to emulate another it simply does not work. We are wonderfully created to be authentically expressed. The world needs each of us and is the less if we are not truly ourselves.