Each of us really is talented.
I have heard so many people say that they have no talent, no gifts, no strengths. It is amazing how many people are firmly convinced that they have no talent at all.
I sometimes teach pottery classes. There have been students that were so negative, that they almost talked them out of even trying to throw the first piece. Yet, I do not teach the mind of the students. I teach the body. It is the fingers and wrists, arms and palms, body position and posture that really determine how well one can throw. Once they can center the clay once, if allowed, the body remembers and can do it again.
That is the problem with people who think they have no talent. They are limiting themselves by THINKING that they have no talent. Yet, their spirit knows different.
If we are like what we came from, and we came from God, then we have to have the following somewhere within us:
1. The ability to create something, to bring together unrelated pieces and form something new.
2. Imagination that can conceive of whatever we believe we can conceive.
3. The urge, the motivation and the satisfaction in the process of creation.
4. A strong desire to show others how to create for themselves.
If this is true (and I wholeheartedly agree with it) then anyone has the talent to create. Anyone.
If you can make people laugh, you have talent.
Baking bread (because I cannot to save my life) means that you have talent.
Raising children means that you really have talent.
Finding the most economic way to get to and from work means you have talent.
Blogging means that you have talent.
Twittering means that you have talent.
Being a good sister or brother, son or daughter, mother or father means that you have talent.
Being a football referee (especially in Texas) means that you have talent. (And a lot of courage).
Cleaning a house really well means that you have a ton of talent.
But in addition to these examples, anything that you have done, even once, to add to the world something new, then you have the talent to do it again.
No one has no talent at all. In fact, if you find such a person, then they are perfectly talented at being the absolute best general student for all those others that wish to teach their talents. A most talented student indeed.
While I agree, I still can't throw pottery to save my life. Centering the clay never worked for me. Perhaps I will have to try again one of these days -- and expand my possibilities.
ReplyDeleteI have many talents and learn more about them everyday.