The Music of Passion

I have this amazing job and I work with an amazing boss and together we are building an amazing team.  It’s such an honor and privilege to be part of this team.  I’m humbled when I step back out of the tasks and timelines and see how God is knitting us together.

We creative people tend to be extreme in most every area of our lives.  Passion drives us up to the edge and then we jump without looking back simply because we love love love what we do.  But trying to harness that passion in a team can be the most challenging task of all.  Or so I thought for such a long time.

Most creative people live in the moment and drive themselves with flexibility and freedom.  I am also very creative but it has to fit in boxes – lol!  And where most creative people eat the icing before they eat the cake,  I have to give myself permission first.

So for awhile now I’ve been challenging myself to loosen up, to put this flexibility and freedom in my days.  This week, Micah left on vacation and I did something so extreme to my normal pattern of managing all the details…

I just flowed…  I relaxed…  I became visible.  I didn’t realize how much I was hiding behind the details and timelines – reacting versus just being.  At one point this week, my door was open and I stopped working to just listen to the noises in the hallway and other offices.

I closed my eyes and listened as Riley went through file after file after file of sound effects for the next video we are producing.  Dee and Diane would break out in cackles of laughter as the hum of probably Jody’s voice stirred them up.  And others like Mario and Dave would float through the halls creating their own string of voices.

It was like an orchestra playing music.  The song of ministry played with our hearts. It about brought me to tears.

It’s such an honor to be part of this.  And YOU are a part of this too!  We all have a part in this never ending song that glorifies an Amazing God.

I have this amazing job and I work with an amazing boss and together we are building an amazing team.  It’s such an honor and privilege to be part of this team. I’m learning that it’s not about harnessing our passion but rather finding ways to build upon it and releasing it into the “hallways”.  I’m looking forward to conducting more music with my team.  Changing lives with our passion.

~ by Jen Chappell on September 12, 2008.