There are four definitions for ‘passion’: 1 strong and barely controllable emotion; 2
intense sexual love; 3 an intense enthusiasm for something; and 4 (The Passion)
the suffering and death of Jesus.
Within the context of
today’s blog, I’m focussing on definition 3 - my intense enthusiasm for certain
things, of which sailboats and sailing are high on the list.
The definition of ‘addiction’ that is applicable here is my
devotion and apparent dependence upon certain activities such as building,
renovating and sailing small boats.
Passion and addiction often go hand in hand. For example, I
am swayed by emotion when I see a beautiful yacht. My heart beats faster as my
eye feasts on her loveliness. I imagine her at sea under full sail. The sky is
patterned with cotton wool clouds; the crystalline
water is topped with curling white crests, and the air is pure
as can be.
What sailor would not
feel passion in his soul on a day like this when the tiller trembles at his
fingertips? She heels and he responds; her graceful clipper bow cuts a furrow,
and a trail of sparkling bubbles trace where she has been.
Passion becomes addiction, for he cannot live without his
desire. He cannot live without the object of his love. He is truly hooked, and
will give all to obtain it.
Some of us are hopelessly addicted.
James 1:14, 15 ‘But
each one is temped when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives
birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.’
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Lustful Passions
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