I answered the phone last night and the voice on the other end said, "Sandy, I don't know what my God-given gifts are!"
For the next 2 1/2 hours I asked questions and Larry D-U-G deep in the buried recesses of his head - and heart, and exhausted we started laughing. We uncovered buried treasure!
It is amazing that we live in this body of ours - our temple - 24 hours a day, and we don't know who we are. If we don't know who we are, how can anyone else know us?
Our God-given gifts are the things that are so natural to us they are like breathing air. They are the things that give us energy; the hobbies that we spent most of our time on when we were growing up.
To some it may be that they loved - and still love to draw, paint, sing, be creative. An artist? An artist can express his/her creativity in many ways, not merely the obvious one, like having work in a gallery or being a musician on stage.
You played teacher when you were growing up? Maybe a consultant, speaker, pastor, or even...a teacher?
Take a piece of paper, make three columns, and put these headings at the top of each section:
Personality Traits, Hobbies, Experiences
Under each column, with no humility, but honesty and openness fill in the blanks. For example under the heading of Personality Traits I put: loves to laugh - loud laugh, great sense of humor, big smile, funny, love to read and learn, cherish girlfriends, too loud sometimes, love to talk, love people, love music, good writer, organized, etc. You get the picture. It took awhile to put the wall of humility down and jot down who I was: like saying that I am funny.
But I started to see who I was created to be: working with people, teaching, laughing, loving. Bingo! An inspirational speaker...teaching people to uncover their dreams.
Who are you? What are your God-given gifts?
s we hung up the phone Larry was humming; he was excited about exploring how toi use his gifts that have always been there and are breathing or the first time in a long time.
Dig deep inside of your soul...who were you born to be?