Passion ... PassiTon??
Passion ... PassiTon??
Wonder if you read about the case in Beijing, China, where a male teacher kicked and hit his student with a steel bar before throwing her out of a fourth-floor window to her death (Sep 26, ST)? How did you feel about it? I am totally disgusted with his behavior!! How could he do such a thing? I began to wonder if he went into this teaching profession with passion at all???
Don't you agree that it's easy to just keep a job and do the routine, but to do it well and to do it with love, it requires passion - and that's what makes the difference!
I've come across many teachers, pastors, church workers, Christian ministry staff, etc who are either very passionate about their job or not at all. You can tell - very easily, by the words they speak, you know if they are full of life and excited about sharing their lives. Sadly, sometimes, we enter a profession because that seems to be one of the "best" choice out of all the choices, and as a result, we accept the job because it's a job - perhaps more so because we need the income to survive, and not because we love what we are going to do.
I believe it's the same when it comes to learning, as a student - do we see learning as a chore or we are passionate and excited about new things we can learn and discover, besides enlarging our knowledge base.
Someone once shared with me that if you add a "T" in the word passion - it becomes passiTon (aka Pass IT on). It can be passing the passion of life on, or it could be passing the passion that Jesus (aka the "T" in the passiTon) has brought into our lives and hence becoming a living testimony for Him.
When we are passionate about what we do, we will make sure we do it to the best of our ability - not shortchanging ourselves, others and God. Accept the challenge from God today to live your life with passion - and do what He commits to your care with that excitement and love. The end goal? That He be glorified through our lives!
Wonder if you read about the case in Beijing, China, where a male teacher kicked and hit his student with a steel bar before throwing her out of a fourth-floor window to her death (Sep 26, ST)? How did you feel about it? I am totally disgusted with his behavior!! How could he do such a thing? I began to wonder if he went into this teaching profession with passion at all???
Don't you agree that it's easy to just keep a job and do the routine, but to do it well and to do it with love, it requires passion - and that's what makes the difference!
I've come across many teachers, pastors, church workers, Christian ministry staff, etc who are either very passionate about their job or not at all. You can tell - very easily, by the words they speak, you know if they are full of life and excited about sharing their lives. Sadly, sometimes, we enter a profession because that seems to be one of the "best" choice out of all the choices, and as a result, we accept the job because it's a job - perhaps more so because we need the income to survive, and not because we love what we are going to do.
I believe it's the same when it comes to learning, as a student - do we see learning as a chore or we are passionate and excited about new things we can learn and discover, besides enlarging our knowledge base.
Someone once shared with me that if you add a "T" in the word passion - it becomes passiTon (aka Pass IT on). It can be passing the passion of life on, or it could be passing the passion that Jesus (aka the "T" in the passiTon) has brought into our lives and hence becoming a living testimony for Him.
When we are passionate about what we do, we will make sure we do it to the best of our ability - not shortchanging ourselves, others and God. Accept the challenge from God today to live your life with passion - and do what He commits to your care with that excitement and love. The end goal? That He be glorified through our lives!
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