The Word "Passionate"

Collins Dictionary online defines a passionate person to be one with strong feelings about something or a strong belief in something*. With that I say I am a passionate woman. Sometimes other people cannot understand this particularly when it has to do with belief.

I remember when a manager of a big company in our place called me to join the bidding for supply of manpower in his company. He told me, "I want you to participate in this bidding. I heard good things about you. And yes, I can see the passion in your face." He advised me what to do and finally I won in the bidding.

Can you really see or feel the passion in other's face? What about this photo? I searched for a 'perfect' photo from a stock images platform on the web, while remembering my favorite Ed Sheeran's passionate rendition of "Perfect" song, and I got this. Feel her passion?)

The root word of passionate is "passion". Passion means 'a strong emotion'. It also means the 'suffering and death of Jesus'.

Today is Easter Sunday. The passion is over. We remember how Jesus resurrected from death.

At this very moment, I have a strong passion in me for something deep beyond what eyes can see, resurrecting. The passionately meditating me strongly wants to get reconnected with the magical world of infinite love.

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Remember FaBi - feeling about something; belief in something

Photo credits: Pixabay

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