I’m teaching a class at church for six weeks, and we’re looking at how we were created for service.  The notion is that God gave each of us a specific passion, specific spiritual gifts, and a certain personality so that we could do his work in the way he designed us to function.  Last night we looked at “passion”, which can also be described as a burden, a calling, or a love.  I must admit that in preparing to teach the session, I forgot to do my own passion assessment.  I ran through the material while the class was discussing in small groups, and I love the questions.  If you could do anything without worrying about limitations, cost, or failure, what would you do?  What keeps you up late at night discussing with a friend?  What significant experiences have you had and why were they significant to you?  In my own head and heart, there exist the repeated themes of poverty, hunger, helping the disenfranchised, being present with the ones no one else wants to be with and usually forgets.  The elderly, the orphans, the people at the food pantry.

So, what is it that keeps you talking late into the night?  What would you love to do without worrying about it being too risky?  What’s your passion?

(Tito & Ambrosio, Guatemala 2008)