Day Four: Passion

Word of the Day: Passion

Image of the Day: Brea the Iron Fairy

Token of the Day: The Lion King storybook

Today is Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent which ends with Passiontide from Passion Sunday to Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday.

Brea is the fairy of the nasturtium. On her outstretched foot sits a butterfly (caterpillar-chrysalis-butterfly). Nasturtium is wholesome and nutritious, its name means nose-twister or nose-twitcher! It symbolises patriotism (link with lion), victory in battle (Aslan comes to mind) and conquest (Resurrection). Interestingly, the passion flower symbolises faith.

Pleasure and pain

the pain and the passion

purple prose and purple robes

without my passion

i am an empty shell

lack-lustre, no sparkle

once empassioned

my breath is hot

my heart on fire

my spirit restored.

Passion etymology:

Middle English from Old French from Medieval Latin passio, passion

• the sufferings of Jesus, or a martyr, from Late Latin
• physical suffering, martyrdom, sinful desire, from Latin
• an undergoing, from passus, past participle of pati, to suffer

The Passion:

the events and suffering - physical, spiritual, and mental - of Jesus in the hours before and including his trial and execution by crucifixion.

The Lion King tells of the Circle of Life, believing in one's own worth, sacrifice, passion... There are elements of Narnia, the Passion, Old Testament accounts of family breakdown...

Ardent

abandoned display

strong

lustful

suffering

martyred

boundless

limitless

devotion

desire

eros

pathos...