a tiger lily life

I admire life.
City-life, nature, animals, humans, anything that has radiance and life apparent through growth and evolution.
Anything moving.
Viewing and being apart of the overwhelming beauty in life is my ultimate hobby.
I've always felt this passion and fire in me that's hard to hinder. People think I'm crazy; heck, even my cat probably thinks I'm nuts when I dance, spin and sing loudly in my big, empty city-apartment. I feel and enjoy this gift, we all should.
Me and my cat, though, are usually the only things that give my apartment life.
Maybe I should get a plant?
Regardless, I'm going to keep on dancing because I can and because it's life.
Where has that passion and fire gone in our society's eyes? We calmly go about our days, half of us drugged up on psychotherapeutic medicines that our doctors freely suggest - since we've felt "sad" in the past month.
Shouldn't we rejoice in our "sad" times? I mean, if there wasn't a sad feeling, then how do we know what's happy and good?
I often worry that our society has gotten to this peculiar zombie state of pushing and pulling our way into the corporate world, saving money and buying items made in china where children and women are forced to work 12 hour shifts, getting paid weekly what most of us would make in a few hours of "work".
We selfishly follow others up the totem poll of money and success, not caring about life in the process. As long as we make more than our neighbor, as long as we have better clothes and gadgets that our friends then "life" is good.
However, since when does petty cash and credit buy life?
I know I will never live to see the day when people pay attention to what they are doing and respect life. There are a few people I know who truly respect and value their lives, because they have no control over it -- they are following the example of the one person who lived a perfectly self-less life. Jesus.
We all need to strive to be like Jesus.
With Him guiding our steps, we can rejoice and enjoy everything moving, breathing and radiant.
I've came across people who think Christians are just big stiff-necked lumps who sit around, read their Bibles and occasionally visit abortion clinics holding signs that say "baby-killer" or tell homosexuals they are going to hell if they don't repent.
Jesus wouldn't do that.
The Jesus I know accepts and loves people regardless of their past. He offers them life and truth and a guide-book.
I also think, through studying Jesus' life, that we aren't supposed to just sit around and hide because we are Christians and live in the "evil" world. We're supposed to get out there and live. Live for Him, dance for Him, sing for Him, praise Him, love others for Him and be a pure and holy vessel for Him to reach out and offer the gift of life.
If we all lived passionately and recklessly for the Lord, wow, what a place this would be.
Unfortunately, there is always the darkness and evil lurking about...but what we have to remember is that through Jesus, through His light, darkness will not penetrate.
It's only light that can change darkness. Darkness doesn't know light.
I believe that it's through light we can honestly know what life is about and dangerously live for it, through the only light -- Jesus.
So, next time you see me running around, dancing, singing, smiling and laughing, please understand that it is through Jesus that I do any of it, or admire any of it.

Let's LIVE as wild as neon lights, as bright as the sun and as beautiful as a tiger lily.