Of Passions: From God, For God
By Andre Mencias
November 19, 2017
November 19, 2017
Somewhere along the way we find ourselves doing the things we like. Some may have a great interest in poetry, music, or to serve others. But what we do with such enthusiasm is something else, it is passion.
We remember the photographers who preserve in getting nothing but the best shots of the bride and groom during their wedding. The musicians we listen to everyday that brightens up our mood with their artistic renditions of what one feels under the weather. The knights who wield their pens to express their thoughts and emotions in a marvelous way. What they have in common is the passion they possess in doing the things they love. It is what keeps them going despite the demands of a mediocre routine they face everyday, a journey towards feeling more alive. A flame that burns and keeps burning within.
However, the repetition of such action can tire the soul and lose its meaning to continue. We burn out. We sometimes lose touch of what we have so greatly invested ourselves in. At a certain part of our lives, we will think that what we were passionate about becomes part of the mediocre routine. It becomes dull, it becomes boring.
Of this week's Gospel, exhibits the Parable of the Talents. We understood this story as if one never uses his talent, and then loses it. However, we may not notice that, even if we use these talents, we may lose them at a certain point in time. Thus we remember that the way when we found our passion for something must have been the plan of God for man. Perhaps, it was the plan of God that led us to our inclinations to certain aspects of life that made us passionate. With the Holy Spirit that acts as a flame that keeps burning for oneself, and ultimately, for others; that our passions are meant to be shared, that one may also ignite the flame of another. As God gave us such passions in our mortality, it is through our passions that can lead us back to God.
We remember the photographers who preserve in getting nothing but the best shots of the bride and groom during their wedding. The musicians we listen to everyday that brightens up our mood with their artistic renditions of what one feels under the weather. The knights who wield their pens to express their thoughts and emotions in a marvelous way. What they have in common is the passion they possess in doing the things they love. It is what keeps them going despite the demands of a mediocre routine they face everyday, a journey towards feeling more alive. A flame that burns and keeps burning within.
However, the repetition of such action can tire the soul and lose its meaning to continue. We burn out. We sometimes lose touch of what we have so greatly invested ourselves in. At a certain part of our lives, we will think that what we were passionate about becomes part of the mediocre routine. It becomes dull, it becomes boring.
Of this week's Gospel, exhibits the Parable of the Talents. We understood this story as if one never uses his talent, and then loses it. However, we may not notice that, even if we use these talents, we may lose them at a certain point in time. Thus we remember that the way when we found our passion for something must have been the plan of God for man. Perhaps, it was the plan of God that led us to our inclinations to certain aspects of life that made us passionate. With the Holy Spirit that acts as a flame that keeps burning for oneself, and ultimately, for others; that our passions are meant to be shared, that one may also ignite the flame of another. As God gave us such passions in our mortality, it is through our passions that can lead us back to God.