What are you passionate about?\u00a0And how much are willing to risk for it?<\/p>\n
These questions came to mind over the weekend, and\u00a0I began thinking about how much I would risk for my goals in life.<\/p>\n
This past Sunday, my family experienced a tragedy that was devastating and life-changing for those at the center. That evening, as I crawled into bed next to my husband, I began wondering if there was anything for which I would risk that kind of pain. Neither of us could come up with an answer to the question.<\/p>\n
I see this risk in people who continually make themselves vulnerable to pain – whether it is to find the right companion, the right job, the right passion. This kind of risk can bring both immense joy and devastating pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n I so deeply admire the people who know their answer to this question – know a purpose that they have such a deep, deep desire to fulfill. These people are focused, they are driven, and they have such an honest strength. \u00a0The strongest people I have met are those who continually make themselves vulnerable even after such heartbreak.<\/p>\n These are my thoughts for the day, with no real direction other than to say my heart is sending a sense of peace to those dear to me and a sense of admiration for the strength they continually show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What are you passionate about?\u00a0And how much are willing to risk for it? These questions came to mind over the weekend, and\u00a0I began thinking about how much I would risk for my goals in life. This past Sunday, my family experienced a tragedy that was devastating and life-changing for those at the center. That evening, as I crawled into bed Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[11,23,86,38,61,68],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping","tag-acceptance","tag-empathy","tag-family","tag-grief","tag-healing","tag-vulnerability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1410511_48224714.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}