What are You Living for?

So today, I was in discipleship class, and the question was brought up about what excites you? What are you living for?


Now of course the sunday school answer is "Jesus" But I'm serious. What are you living for? What gets your adrenaline pumping, sends goosebumps down your arms, chills down your spine, makes your eyes light up with understanding passion... what are the simple moments in life that you live for every day?


I'm going to try to give you a look into my [very] long list... I can't even tell you everything... Passion is... something amazing, and if you haven't found something that you are passionate about, you NEED to find something. This is what I can give you... I have been composing this list for a while, so please don't think this is all just a spur of the moment thing.



Untouched nature, a genuine laugh, a cloudless, star-filled sky, a sunset/rise, that breeze that ripples across a field and makes everything turn another shade and shiver. A smile that reaches the eyes, and opens the soul. Two friends walking together. Frost on a window. Rain on your skin. A mother and child. The wind whistling through trees. Details and patterns we normally don't look at. The sound of crickets on a summer night. the feel of new piano keys, or guitar strings. When the waves tease your bare feet. The gentle song of a choir singing only to God, and not the congregation. when two people that care about each other touch hands, The feel and smell of a fire's heat, snow on eyelashes, Joy in a friends eyes, passion and understanding of a subject, when a loser becomes a winner, the feel of a butterflies wings on your cheek, a young child's fingers touching your face, a conversation between developing friends, that breeze that caresses your cheek when there was no breeze before, sitting under a tree with a good friend, the way two people look at each other when they care about each other. The fact that when you lie on your back and stare at the stars, you feel yourself shrinking; comfortable silence; the joy in a child's eyes when someone takes time for them, the peaceful laziness of a warm saturday afternoon, big words, the obviousness of God's everyday grace that simply overwhelms us with every breath we are given, The first breath after forgiveness, the reality of freedom, the definition of grace, the coffee shop adventures between friends, the chiding, laughter, mock arguments, and smiles, when you can see true love in another's eyes, water running over your feet, a mountain top experience, driving and looking at what you normally miss, getting a new perspective, that adrenaline rush when you do something utterly crazy, and you regret it for a split second... then you don't. Walking with bare feet on warm concrete or wet grass, That feeling of ecstasy when you have accomplished something you thought impossible, the beauty of watching someone stand up after falling again and again.... forgiveness in action, shadows dancing, Fibonacci patterns, the intimacy between friends growing deeper, the idea of people knowing that they will spend the rest of their lives learning... scripture being read and understanding of it, fields of flowers, and the look in someone's eyes when they trust you. The feel of flower petals between your fingers, the concern in someone's eyes when they care for you, throwing flowers and grass in peoples hair, Cherry Blossom showers. 


*whew* And that doesn't even scratch the surface. 


What about you?? Think about it...


Katydid out.