Posted on January 20, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I had a professor in college who challenged all of us to be passionate . . . about anything. Throughout the semester he often said that it didn’t really matter what we were passionate about, just that we cared deeply enough about a cause,… Continue Reading “Choosing What I am Passionate About”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affection, Affectionate, Affections, Apathy, Augustine, Beatles, Beauty, Eternal, Eternally Valuable, Eternity, Eye of the beholder, Feel Deeply, Feel Strongly, Feelings, Goodness, Got to Get You Into My Life, Greatest Good, Justice, love, Love God, Love Jesus, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, No Apathy, Ordo Amoris, Passion, Passionate, Passionate love, Rightly Ordered Loves, Strong Feelings, Valuable, Worthy, Worthy of Love
I realize now there was one central reason I played sports as a kid. I wanted to belong. There were some bright moments on the high school football team, but I knew I would never be a star player. It was the opportunity to… Continue Reading “Choosing the Direction of My Love”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Affection, Augustine, City of God, desires, Desires for God, Desires of the flesh, Destiny, Direction, Eternal, Eternity, Heaven, Hell, Kingdom of Darkness, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of this world, love, Loving the world, Loving the wrong person, Loving the wrong thing, misguided love, Purpose, Saint Augustine, Selfish, Selfishness