I always love your thoughts...because I think the same things! Quilting is more than a hobby for me...in the superficial sense I think people think it is my living (now) and because I have quite a bit of money invested myself ...but in all reality....I don't think of quilting as just any hobby or a way to waste my time....It isn't really a passion either..it is more like a part of me..I can't imagine my life without quilting..it offers so much to me...It has brought me closer to God...Brought special people into my life and it has afforded me many things I could never possess any other way..I know who is in control of that! Above all I know that there was one plan for me...and it included quilting.....I am blessed.