Great Performances at the MET

So I'm sitting here watching this documentary:  Great Performances at the MET.  It's about young, up and coming opera singers who are in are in the running to become a part of the roster at the MET.  Wow!
While I'm watching, I here a young man say that he told his parents that his intention is to the best he can and to give it all he's got.  You gotta love it!

Whenever, I here young folks who are passionate and driven, I get "warm fuzzies".  I wish that I were more passionate when I was in my twenties, or no...maybe not more passionate, but that my passion was harnessed more and directed.  I was young and spunky and excited, but I didn't know what to do with all of that energy and quite frankly, I'm not sure that my predecessors knew what to do with it either. I was passionate and full of ideas about ministry, but they were misdirected and unfocused.  So I sulked and moaned and complained and grumbled, knowing that there was more to Christian life than Sunday-Go-to-meetin' meetings.  At least I thought there was.

Well it's been within the past two or three years, that I've finally discovered what to do with my passion. I'm learning to connect with peers and to plan and follow-through.

I want to be passionate like the young folks in this documentary.  I want to give it my best in ministry...in life.  I don't think that I've ever poured it all into anything...too scared.  Not anymore though.  I want my life to be full and abundant. It's going to come and I am going to give it my all...why not I have nothing left to lose.