If I may have a Word with you

There's this whole "One Word" thing.  Maybe you don't know about it.  Before I cannonballed into bloggy land, I didn't know about it either.  From what I gather, you choose one word to be your focus for the year.  Honestly, that seems like a pretty big commitment.  I mean, one word for the entire year?

So I avoided it.  Because I can commit to very few things in life.  Handsome?  Fo-eva.  Deli-style ham?  Most of my formative years, and long into the future.  But a word?  For an entire year?  One word, 366 (!! because it's leap year!!) days... I mean, maybe if it was 365.  I just don't know about that last day.

But then my pastor spoke one Sunday.  He said "Ask God to give you a burden for others."  And I wanted a burden.  But I wanted more than that, too.  Pastor G. said that a burden would move you to action, but I need more action, I need explosive action.  So I did ask God to give me a burden for others, but also for him to give me Passion.  This morning, I prayed, "God, let this year be full of passion."  And then I thought, (yes, in the middle of praying) - that's my word.

Passion for people.  A life's passion to work towards.  Passion in the morning, passion in the evening, passion at supper time.

Definition: A strong and barely controlable emotion.  Any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling.

So that's my word, that's my (stolen & cropped) picture of my word, and that's my focus.  To be passionate.  To be barely controlled, but in a good and directed way.  To be compelled to action.

Linked up here

Passion all around,

TFW