It’s early on a rainy Saturday morning and I wrote down a quote about passion and purpose?!?!
What was I thinking?
I think I’ve become passionate about getting up early and writing every morning. It gives me an opportunity to clean up life’s challenges and difficulties. The Chalkboard also lets me open up with stories that define the journey that I have taken.
Will the chalkboard ever have a purpose outside of four or five hundred hits a day on the blog?
I can see it on comments that are made both on Facebook and on the Chalkboard website.
I found out that I recently was blocked on Facebook because of the story I wrote about my father’s dear friend who was Jewish. The purpose of telling that story was to point out why I support Israel. I didn’t realize it would weed out a Chalkhead.
Yesterday a very good friend told me about a lifelong friendship she has with a Muslim college classmate. Her purpose was to show me that there are good people out there. This friend chose to help me be a better person rather than block me. Thank you KFP….
The day will come when I grab the chalk for the last time. Maybe it will be like the last time I put my baseball glove on my handlebar. I didn’t realize that day was the last time I’d play a pick up game of baseball at the park.
If I’m lucky the date on that last chalkboard will be in the late forties or early fifties. It will be after that final blackboard when my passion and purpose will have been realized.
Back to this Chalkboard…. Today isn’t the day to worry about the purpose of life. Today is a day that should be full of passion.
Passion for Faith during this Christmas and Hanukkah season. Passion for family and friends as the year comes to an end. Passion for the simplicity of a Saturday morning.
A trip to the gym, a run along the Prairie Path, breakfast at the diner, grabbing the papers at the newsstand, a bike ride on the Monon, going to the grocery, a walk down the river or just sitting at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee listening to Orion Samuelson’s weekly farm report.
My passion today will start by hearing,
“good morning dad, what’s for breakfast?”
I’m going to watch the Army versus Navy game because after that last chalkboard… I want this annual football game to be one of the things the Shepkids remember me being passionate about.
…..And being Jumbo Claus. I love being Jumbo Claus. That reminds me… I better get my suit out today so it’s not wrinkly.
