Is it brave to live a life of passion? To put yourself on the line and risk everything for a dream? Is hard work directed to the things you love to do really the answer?
Maybe.
The real question I think is what do we love?
Do we love being in charge of people? Do we love making predictions in markets? Do we love spending endless nights, weekends, weeks away from our family?
As for me, I will chose my position in Christ over any of my passions. My passions will lead me astray every time. In the spring as the weather heats up, my all consuming passion and obsession is fishing. I want to catch and fry as many fish as possible. As autumn sets in, my passions turn to reading and then inevitably to firearms. I have many passions, many things that I'm good at. But I will never choose to follow my passions when I have such a wonderful position on my Foundation.
I will be possibly moving my thoughts here over to thehillstead.com soon. I am working on a short book of our little homesteading journey and I will be posting more on that and whatever else I want to talk about there. Perhaps in the future my wife and I will share some of our homeschooling story as well.
