Each Advent season my church puts together a book of daily devotions written by members. I LOVE it!! Our pastor assigns scripture to volunteers and they then share their thoughts about the verses. It’s such a beautiful, personal gift and look forward to reading advent insights from my church family each morning.
And, of course, I look forward to writing my two entries each year! I’ve gotten into the habit of including at least one poem and a friend asked me how I come up with those. As I explained, she kept saying, “I guess that’s why you’re a writer.”
Which made me feel pretty good.
Of course, she has an incredible gift for music–something I do NOT possess. Which got me thinking about how we all have unique gifts. And how, I suspect, many of us wish we were good at something we’re . . . not.
I would LOVE to be good at music. To be able to sing and play instruments. To delight people with song. But would I be willing to trade? Would I be willing to give up my ability to write–to communicate through story–if it meant I could sing and play?
It didn’t take me long to come up with an answer. Nope.
I think that might be a big part of recognizing our natural gifts. They’re the things we don’t really think about being good at. The things we do because they’re just part of who we are. And if we didn’t do them–we wouldn’t be so much ourselves anymore.
Music. Writing. Hospitality. Generosity. Inspiring Others. Athletics. Organization. Leadership. There are as many gifts as there are people.
So how about you–would you be willing to trade something you’re naturally good at for something you WISH you were good at? Tell me!
I agree…as a member of Sarah’s church I also love our Advent devotionals. BUT…somehow I’m not as articulate as I’d like to be and know that writing mine is not a gift but maybe just a favor that God grants me once a year! I love music…24/7! God put that love in me all the way back to my Mama singing You are My Sunshine to me as a child…I bet Sarah’s goes back to being read something as a child and learning to write her ABC’s…amazing how He does that…
Yes! You’re another one with such a gift for music. And I LOVED your devotion this week. I didn’t really know about celebrating Advent until I was an adult either.
I come from a very musically gifted gene pool but the pool must have been drained when that gene was handed out. I appreciate music but Hoover at trying to create it. Trade writing for playing the piano, remember notes to play my languishing recorder? Nope. I do enjoy composing with words.
One more thing we have in common!
Separated only by our accents and a few miles 🙂