Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Here's a question for you. Would you consider yourself a passionate person?

If you answered yes to that question, let me drill down a little bit

further. What exactly are you passionate about? Specifically, since we're talking about social media

this week, what really gets you going online? What do you become passionate about in your social

media interactions? Think about it for a minute minute and I'll come right back.

So my boys are huge sports fans and when my oldest is home from college, the predominant noise in my house is the sound of my two boys debating about sports. I mean, they argue

about which guy and which team and this one is going

to take it all this year and this one had the most whatever. And it just goes on and on. And by

far the most hotly argued conversation is this one. Who is the greatest of all time in basketball?

Michael Jordan or LeBron James? Listen, I could not tell you how tired I am of this

conversation. One says one thing and one says the other. It is absolutely nuts. It gets so loud

and they are both so passionate about it that this summer, when my oldest was home from school,

my husband and I finally had to make a rule that they could no longer have this debate.

I am not even kidding you. We were just so over it. The passion for this conversation was off the

charts. And some of us get on social media and you would think we have given birth to the

celebrities we argue over. We are producers of the TV shows we fight over that someone says is a terrible

show and we get so mad because we claim it is the best thing we have ever seen in our life.

And I'm not sure that we've ever seen such vicious passion come out as we saw with the election

back some months ago that honestly tore some families and friendships

apart that will probably not ever be the same. We don't lack passion in America. We just don't

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