Be Where You Are

I've been thinking lately...
(a dangerous pasttime, I know)

I've been thinking about living life on purpose. 
I've been thinking about living life full of faith.
I've been thinking about living life with passion.

Those are some pretty big ideas there: intentionality, 100% faith, intense passion.

I don't know exactly how people do this--live with all those things--but I want to. 

I've never been accused of lacking passion.  That one I have done pretty well developing in my life from the time I was small.  Lately I've only lacked passion in my daily routine. It can be easy to lose excitement for the mundane things, but I have a lot of reminders everyday that help me find that love and passion of living.  Mostly in the form of 26 little kids whose very passion helps me find my own.

Faith.  Living by faith is something I have not always been great at.  Lately, I have been trying to, and although I fall off the wagon sometimes I am discovering a whole new way of living when I let go of control.  When I let myself trust, believe, and have faith, life looks completley different.  It is truly a brand new perspective.  Like a window that was grimy and all of a sudden is crystal clear.  Not that I understand what I'm looking at on the other side of the window, but at least I can see it. 

This last one, living life "on purpose" is really my toughest one to learn.  I've always been pretty good at seizing the moment, taking every opportunity I can get my hands on, and filling my life with amazing experiences, but I'm not sure that is exactly what it means to live on purpose.  I'm starting to believe that living life on purpose is more than that.  But I'm still not quite sure exactly what it is I'm not seeing.  There is something I'm missing in this one, I just don't know what. 

Life is worth living, that I know. 
Life is worth enjoying, that I believe.
Life is worth learning, that I live every day.

So cheers, to another day.

"Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life." --Buddha