What is the difference?

Some days can seem like they are never going to end.  Or a week may feel like it is going on for months.  But then some days fly by and some weeks seem like only a day or two.  

What is the difference?

Well, what I have found is the days and weeks that I am doing something I enjoy and am passionate about are the days and weeks that fly by.  On the days or weeks that I am only going through the motions and not squeezing in something that I am passionate about allow the days to feel like weeks and the weeks to feel like months.  

May was a long, tiring, wear me down month.  And while I was doing things I was passionate about, I also was not finding time to sit and listen and talk with Jesus.  I was filling my day so full that I did not have that quiet time to listen to him and his plans for me.  I was not allowing time to listen to the beauty that God created for each of us.  We live on and among things that we take for granted every day.  So during the month of June I have been working hard to do what I love, do my passion, make room for Jesus, and listen to the sounds of the earth. 

And what that mindset, June is flying by.  I cannot believe it is already June 18th!  This month is flying by and before I know it is going to be July.  With my work schedule, I am fortunate to have Wednesdays off.  During the past few months I have not been protective of my Wednesdays.  Some times I am working on through them, doing homework or not seeing the beauty in a day that I could be spending outside among the creation of our Lord.  For the past four weeks I have cherished by Wednesdays and I have loved being able to spend them outside or doing something new.  

Thankfully I work in my passion, I am doing what I love.  And I am doing what I feel God has called me to do. Working with the poverty and homelessness population is not ideal to some.  But for me it is ideal.  It is not ideal to me to work in middle schools, though I have a great friend that has a calling to teach middle school.  It is not ideal to me to be a chemist, though I have cousins that are.  Everyone may see something as crazy, but yet others may see what you do as crazy.  Everyone has a passion.  Everyone has a calling.  It does not matter what someone else thinks about your passion or calling, all that matters is what God has called you to do!  He will show you the way!

He may not lead you down a straight path, but who would want that?!?  Take the curve, dead ending road that may lead you back to where you started.  Every place that God leads us to is making an impact on what our life is going to be like.  I am so excited to see what God has planned for me, because so far I have such an assortment. 

Do what you love and don't worry what others think. 

Everyone has a passion, discover it and do it!

Be who you are, no one is better at than you!

Dear Heavenly Father, You know us better than we know ourselves.  Help us to have the patience to allow you to lead us down the path that you have planned for us.  While sometimes we would really like to know the path you have for us, remind us that you always have a plan.  I pray for my friends that have not discovered their passion yet, that they may discover it and do their passion.  Guide us in making a difference, even if it is only a small one.  Everyone can make a difference, no matter how small or big the action is.  Blessed to be a child of God.  I lift up prayers for all the silent, unspoken or un-thought prayers!  In Jesus holy name, I pray. Amen.