Hi Tad,



The word "passion" originally meant "suffering". Only later has it come to mean "strong emotions" and "love". My thoughts are we should heed the original meaning! I believe passion is a misconstrued love, a love of love. We are most passionate about things we cannot have, objects that are separate and distant from us. I do not believe one can be passionate about God, unless one is feeling cut off from God, or has false idea of God. There is a level of anxiety evoked in the word "passion". Love implies connection and a relationship. Passion is like a search light in the dark looking for a lost object of affection. It is a desperate emotion. When I hear someone say that they are passionate about something, my sense is that they do not know what they are talking about! They have no real understanding of what it is they are supposedly passionate about, otherwise they should be able to articulate something about it. Albeit passion may be a necessary drive to get us across the gap, but once the connection is made there should be some peace, no? You may still be seeking.



Nort