I am n vacation this week.  See here.  My guest today is Larry “the Deuce.”  He blogs at Deucology. Larry, like Floyd, works in the construction industry and I relish his “take” on things.  Here’s Larry:

It’s an honor to stand in for my good blogging friend, Bill, today.  I hope that I can live up to his lofty standards.

Last week I wrote a post over on my blog where I described the fact that I had developed a type of “laryngitis”.  This laryngitis was one where I had lost my blogging voice.  I could still, and did still, croak out my own required posting schedule each weak, but I could barely speak.  I had lost my mojo.

Somewhere, even after that post, I realized what two things were missing from my blog over the past few months.

Passion and Purpose.

I had lost both of these things in what I had been writing of late.

Your reaction?  It might be, so what?  The thing is that it might have happened to you.  Not necessarily in a blog.  You may not be a blogger.  That doesn’t mean you haven’t developed laryngitis in your life.  You may have lost both your passion and your purpose.

You may have lost your passion and purpose in any area of your life.  Your job?  Happens all the time.

Your marriage?  Unfortunately, much too often.

Your relationship with the Lord?  More often than you think, they disappear.

Somewhere along the way, it has probably happened to you.

The question is can you get it back?  Absolutely.

Don’t ask me how.  That isn’t the purpose of this post.  I only want you to keep trying.

If your job is a little fuzzy, keep going in.  Keep a good attitude.

Your marriage isn’t going the way you hoped it would?  Keep loving your spouse, even when you don’t want to.

Your relationship with the Lord has gone dark and you feel like your prayers are hitting the ceiling?  Keep praying and keep pursuing.

You’ve lost your voice in your blog?  Keep writing.  And writing.  And writing.  Until you get your mojo back.

Whatever it is that you used to be passionate and purposeful about, keep going after it.  Keep going until you regain that passion and purpose.

Like Jim Valvano once said, “Don’t give up.  Don’t ever give up.”

Have you ever lost your purpose and passion?  Did you get it back?  What did you do?