Passion can be Overwhelming

What I am speaking of, Overwhelming Passion, is one that never leaves your soul.  It is a love that is birthed deep inside and oozes out through all you do.  When it truly takes hold, when love overwhelms your very being,  it can’t be shaken or broken of left outside. 

It shows up as tenderness in tough situations, it looks like patience and kindness with inconveniences and sometimes it can be perceived as generosity when there is lack.  I know I want more of it and I want it more often.  I believe it is what drives me to ask, “What can I do to make a difference?”  It propels me to take action toward compassion.  It saturates me with a desire to make a difference.  An Overwhelming Passion for the people is what gives me the desire to rally my friends around me.  I know I can’t do it alone, yet I can’t walk away. 

Passion consumes me for clean water, it consumes me for classrooms and teachers, and consumes me with a hope for the people that surpasses all understanding.

A classroom in our village and water jugs.