Changing Seasons, Different Passions

I recognize that I am in a different season. With a different season, I’m discovering new passions. The things I was passionate about as a youth, I’m no longer passionate about—or at least less passionate.

New Lune, a London-based beauty & lifestyle blogger recently published a post on her blog Finding Passions As An Adult.

I’m passionate about my life with Terri and I am passionate about my faith, visual art, and blogging. I still love music, albeit my tastes have changed.

Terri and I love binging on the latest streaming series—particularly psychological dramas and whodunits. [We are currently watching the comedy Shrinking and psychological thriller Before on Apple TV+]. SILO just released its second season.

I’m working on several creative projects. This has resulted in my becoming glad that they’ve lessened my load at work in an attempt to sharpen my focus and reduce my stress [albeit that I’ve questioned if this was being done for me or to me].

Faith remains central to our lives, although we currently aren’t attending church regularly and find ourselves in a season of retreat. A book I’m reading refers to this season as wintering.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Isaiah 46:4 NIV

I’m looking forward to turning 60 in 2025, even as our parents age and friends in their prime fret about turning 40. Forty is now two-thirds of my lifetime. I believe we learn from those who walk ahead of us and having witnessed people we love live out their 80s gives us a glimpse of what the future holds.

Terri and I are increasingly passionate about self-care—“pampering” if you will—mani/pedis, massages, floating pools, spa treatments and such. We’ve both recently tried Thai massage [Now you know what to get us for Christmas].

My passion for blogging has increased dramatically over the past month since meeting fellow blogger David and his wife Nancy in Oklahoma while I attended the Painters Prophets Poets conference. In addition to gleaning new content ideas for my blog, David and I hatched the idea of creating some collaborative posts that has proven to be very joyful and life-giving (at least for me). For me, blogging empties my brain. Writing clears my mind.

I’ve thought a lot about legacy despite boxer Mike Tyson’s recent comments disparaging the foolishness of wasting energy on wondering what we leave behind.

I don’t believe in the word legacy. I just think that’s another word for ego. That’s just some word everybody grabbed onto. Now it’s used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing to me. I’m just passing through, I’mma die, and then it’s going to be over. Who cares about legacy after that?

Mike Tyson, boxer

Okay—your turn:

In what ways have you seen your passions change as you’ve grown older?

Until my next post…

Grace and peace,
Rainer Bantau—The Devotional Guy™

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