Do you have a career or outside of career passion in your life? What gets you excited about living? Part of Living Life More Than OK is having something that energizes you. It is an engine that drives your purpose for living. For some people it is their career. They have a sense of calling about the job they go off to every day. For others they consider their job from a practical standpoint to pay the bills and their passion may be a hobby or a volunteer service they do outside of their job.
Our passion in life helps us to dig in to life and make the most of this life journey. A song that comes to mind about having passion in life and really digging into life is “Dig In” by Lenny Kravitz. When you have a passion life is more like a party to enjoy rather than suffer through. I often use this song with University students to show them how to enjoy digging into their school life on campus. Below you can click on the title to hear a video of the song and take sometime to reflect over the song
Dig In By Lenny Kravitz
It's time to face it Come on in and Join the party
Life has been waiting For you to care Don't try to fake it
Jump on in and Get it started There's so much lovin'
For you to share There is nowhere to run There is no way to hide
Don't let it beat you Say "Nice to meet you" And "Bye"
Once you dig in You'll find it coming
Out the other side And once you dig in
You'll find You'll have yourself A good time
Wake up and shake it You didn't make Your contribution
There ain't no time For you to spare If you ain't part
Of the game Then how can you Find a solution?
Nobody said that It would be fair
When the mountain is high Just look up to the sky
Ask God to teach you Then persevere with a smile Yeah, yeah, yeah
Once you dig in You'll find it coming Out the other side
And once you dig in You'll find You'll have yourself
A good time Once you dig in You'll find it coming
Out the other side And once you dig in You'll find
You'll have yourself A good time
Once you dig in You'll find it coming
Out the other side And once you dig in
You'll find You'll have yourself
A good time Once you dig in You'll find it coming
Out the other side And once you dig in You'll find
You'll have yourself A good time
Once you dig in Yeah, yeah, yeah And once you dig in
You'll have yourself A good time Once you dig in
You'll find it coming Out the other side And once you dig in
There so much in the song to help us grow in life by reflecting on its meaning. Lenny is a master musician and great lyricist. If we learn to be passionate about life even though it requires the hard work of digging we will have a good time. Also as with positive psychology, it doesn’t say life is a warm fuzzy breeze all the time. Life has its difficulties but we are responsible to join in and create solutions that work for us. Sometimes life is unfair yet we can find solutions to redirect our reations to life's unfair times. I especially like the reminder that God is there to help us persevere when the mountain may seem too high.
Take a look at your life and see if you are digging in or allowing life to cover you up. Come on in and join the party.
One final note before the reflection . I came across this video on msn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgZNINN6MU Check it out as it shows how Lenny Kravitz is a class act and down to earth musician. A youth Choir from the First Baptist Church of Lewisville, TX was performing Lenny’s song “Fly Away” in New Orleans as part of an outreach. Lenny Kravitz happens to hear them and he comes by and joins them. Truly showing life is about having a good time. This must have been a great encouragement to the youth musicians to experience Lenny Kravitz join them for a jam session.
Reflection:
What are you passionate about in your life? What does “Digging into life mean to you? Write down a couple new passions you would like to explore for your life journey.
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