Prayers please:

Not sure as of how many read this blog, but if you come across this would you please keep my father and those affected in your prayers! Please and very much thanks! Trying to figure everything out right now is hard with a broken heart. I personally need prayers on guidance and the right words to be said at the right time and to have the strength that my dad and sister need right now. Love you all very much and don't ever take cherished time for granted, you never know when that time will run up. Don't fear to reach out and love on family, friends and people who are in need of love! It's far from silly to show love, no matter how different your love is shown.

What are you waiting for? Isn't life about living! And living to the fullest!?

Even with things we are ever so passionate about and conclusively love doing require good hard time-consuming discipline and repetition, and as many times you'll find can be challenging in the refining process! To refine gold you have to take on the heat, just as you would with passion. Passion is a wonderful thing, but passion refined is a radiant and ravishing! A rushing rage of water can either do ample amounts of damage or when constructively put to a orderly disposition can be used in crafty ways to benefit from, all depending on the course of action taken and the blueprint you come up with. It almost seems as passion without plan is just wildness left to get tangled up in. Passion can be put to a great and mighty use when discipline and structure is involved, or left quite unseemly and overwhelming when no decided or clear course of action is taken. Just because you're passionate doesn't mean you're where you'd like to be. It will always take hard work and the utmost desire to get there.

^"No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way. So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong." 
-Hebrews 12:11-13 (New Living Translation)

"All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified." 
-1Corinthians 9:25-27 (New Living Translation)



"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
– Ferdinand Foch


"When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.”
– John Wesley


"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”
– E. M. Forster


"Purpose may point you in the right direction but it’s passion that propels you.”
– Travis McAshan

^{Lately this scripture has just gripped my heart like no other, captivated, absorbed and consumed me in all ways. Still there is this burning passion inside that I have yet to reckon with. Everything in my being concurs with this blazing burn but I still am in the process of sorting all this out. A deep complex mess of emotions, thoughts, experiences both blessed and bitter, sought out and unexpected are tangled and awry. I just feel so askew as of this last year. I am in desperation, a longing, aching to pursue God in mighty ways in the simplest of days. So this is me.. I am broken, I am blessed.. I am a beautiful mess that God is still working on. And that's what I hold to in the longest of days and darkest of nights, that He will never give up on me.. no matter how confused, or distraught I may be. Where His glory is I want to be, where His beauty is I want to see.} 


 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. -Philippians 4:8