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If you love what you do for a living, you will never work a day in your life. I have found that to be so true. It happens when you use the gifts you were given.
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Using Your Gift – #637
What’s it all about? Why are we put here on this earth? What is expected of us?
There comes a time in life when you start asking those questions and looking for answers. I have. Perhaps you have too.
Each of us have been given different gifts and I believe we are expected to use them to make the world a better place. Some of us can affect things on a global scale, others have little influence beyond our own kitchen. But I think we fulfill our destiny when we figure out our God-given gifts and use them daily for the better good.
God didn’t impart them to you just to hang around. He expects you to use them. Whether you are playing the piano, crocheting afghans, tending flowers, curing diseases, or kissing children good night. You do it very well.
You may be the organizer, or the one who comes up with the good ideas. Or the one who moves things from discussion to action. Your gift may be that you can give of your time, or your money.
Choose the big world or your small intimate world and go make it a better place. It’s expected of you and it pleases God when you do.
I like what Maya Angelou said about this, “My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
P.S.
My jobs have always involved writing, composing, presenting thoughts to the world. I was sure my children appreciated the intellectual significance of what I create at that keyboard. Then I heard someone ask my son what I do for a living. He responded, “She types.”
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My sons said, “she talks to people,” not connecting that to the printed word until they were in school. Once I heard my kindergartener say, “she marks up papers with a red pencil.” Ahhh, yes, and I STILL do!
Your dad is no doubt proud of the penciling and typing you have done. Big footprint on Assn leaders.
Love this one!
I enjoy watching your passion, compassion, humor and style.
I am laughing out loud at “she types.” I’m sure it was always difficult for my own children to articulate the answer to “What does your mother do?” It’s probably still hard!
Isn’t it one of life’s wonderful mysteries that the best things of all—like love and gifts—increase as we give them to others?
Such an awakening, Elizabeth, the first time you feel that rush of pleasure over a kindness or service to someone else. Think how young you were when it was first felt. And we get to keep that feeling, right to the end of our days. So grateful for that.
Indeed. There was just a big discussion online re the generosity of local farmers. Beautiful.