Things I’m Passionate About

One of my blogging quirks is that I get bored of my own layouts really easily. Yesterday Wordpress put out a new theme, and I hopped on board right away because I love a custom header and three columns. What do you think (RSS readers click here if you’d like to see)?

All right, on to the topic of the day. I’ve been disappointed lately with my lack of enjoyment of so many things. I greet life with so much tiredness, so much of the “trying to make it through another day” mentality. A lot of is because of my insomnia problem, lack of discipline so I won’t be physically tired, lack of spiritual renewal.

But I forget that there really are things that I’m passionate about, things that fire me up, things that I speak about with energy and conviction whenever someone brings them up. Here are just two to start with, in no particular order. (This isn’t an exhaustive list. I have a similar, shorter one in my “About” section. But I need to write these for my own sake.)

Reading. Since I was four years old, reading has been an adventure, a delight, an escape, an education… every single day. While college has sucked some of the life out of my reading for personal enjoyment, it has also introduced me to a broader span of literature and Biblical studies. I’ve also been disciplining my own personal reading lately, making sure I’m reading books of value and not only the more frivolous ones. Get me started talking about my favorite books and I could go on for hours. I long to share the joy of literature with others. I think I will always be that girl who takes a book with her almost everywhere, “just in case.”

Biblical manhood and womanhood. This extends to so many areas – complementarian relationships in the church and at home, family structure, dating relationships or courtship, friendships between men and woman, chaste living… and on the flip side, lack of rightness in this area is related to role confusion, feminism, teen pregnancy, abortion, promiscuity, the breakdown of the family, and surface pleasure that’s really a sham. Oh, the heartbreak and craziness that exists in our world today because biblical manhood and womanhood are not understood or adhered to. I am so, so thankful to have had this modeled for me my entire life. It has protected me and guided me in countless ways. I long to share this joy with others, too.