Pursuit of Passion

I've been thinking about passion, lately.  I went to a friend's concert, a few weeks ago (check out Matt Chancey on Facebook or on iTunes, he's pretty awesome).  He's an incredible musician with obvious passion for music and his guitar.  I found myself rather jealous of his ability to live out his passion.  He plays in local venues, goes on tour, and gets to spend time doing what he loves (in addition to being a student).

I found it easier to  follow my passions when they were readily available for me.  It was easy to spend time with kids when I worked at a preschool, or when I didn't work full time and could spend my summers working at summer camp.  The same goes for my passion for water and teaching swimming.  It was easy to enjoy acro sport when I went to schools with acro teams.  It was easy to be involved in music, when I went to school with weekly worship services and friends who often asked for my help with song service.

Now, I find it much harder to pursue my passions, but that has now become one of my many goals.

My current passions:

• Crafts/Creativity-Most likely my strongest passion. I couldn't keep this one out of my life, if I wanted to.  I feel like it practically oozes out of me.  This is why I started my craft blog.  
• Music- Aside from listening to it, I don't have much of it in my life.  I used to sing with the worship team at church, but it's been some time since I've done that.  I've had a guitar for years and still barely know how to play it.  I am hoping to find time to do something about that, soon.  I guess I need to find a good (and cheap) guitar teacher.
• Kids- I LOVE them.  I want about 167 of them.  I used to work at summer camp and teach at a preschool.  But, currently I just have the kiddos in my family.  It will have to be good enough, for now.
• Helping Others-I am able to volunteer every now and then for different things, but I definitely don't do it enough.  Currently, we have tons of tornado damage here in my area (which I will write about sometime soon).  I was really glad to be able to help with some cleanup.  And, once things calm down from the tornado upheaval, I am planning to get some disaster response training, so that I can possibly be of more help in the event of a future disaster.