"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” (Mae West)
...God has a way of speaking to us when we least expect it, the best part of the whole thing is He provides exactly what we need to hear at exactly the right time...it is in those moments we are (i believe) provided with His wisdom, or rather wake up and smell the humus moments...
so the story goes...or rather a refresher, just in cases...
a man had servants and bestowed upon them talents, one he gave 5 to, the next 2 and the last one he gave 1 talent to...he returned after awhile & each brought forth their original talents &...
...the one who had started with 5 double it and so did the one who had 2 but the one with only one talent decided for fear of his master to hide it and do nothing with it...the master was ticked b/c this man did not even try to gain interest in what he had or take the risk with what was given to him...the master scolded him and said since you found no use give it to those who doubled what he was given (mt. 25: 14-30)...i am sure you heard a better more poignant version of this; but the message is clear...
...this is the message that was give to me this past sunday and then the priest went on further to discuss the meaning behind it...remember God knows what we need to hear, His medium can come in all forms even sometimes the most obvious...this sunday it was right in my face...God gives us talents of all kinds, yes ones to serve our church, our neighbors, our families, our community, and even those ones that we often decide or choose not to use b/c we do not want to take the risk of messing up...a talent that is so risky that the very thought of it pushes us to hide it or not use it; and then we find ourselves looking back and thinking, regretting how we just wasted what was given to us or rather even worse not even realizing what was there for us to grab and run with it...then poof its gone or given to another that will use it to the max...
...so my message that i am passing on...not a 100% certain but what i do know is sitting in that pew i realized i did not want to look back and think why didn't i take the risk, why did i let the talents given to me to fall by the wayside, why did i not use to the max what God gave me...why am i so afraid to jump and know that God will provide the parachute and sometimes even when that parachute doesn't work He will provide me with another back up...we, not HIM, are the ones that hold back...we are the ones that can't let go, jump and see what he truly has in store for us...you never know it could be better than we could ever imagine....
...the other aspect that made sense to me, if we are given a talent and we use that talent, that is when we are truly giving love away for all those around us to feel...think about it, if beethoven decided it was too risky and because of a physical disability not to write, compose or play would we ever know what sadness can sound like...or if van gogh decided it was not important for you to visualize a beautiful starry night, would we ever have known this masterpiece...
or would we every know what is like to use your talent to serve the world if it wasn't for mother teresa's humility and living by philosophy of that "...If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one..." do not worry that you can't feed a whole country but that you used what you had and fed one...and the list goes on...but what all these and so many who use their talents have in common is that by giving you what God bestowed upon them, they have shown you love through music, through beauty, through compassion and giving, through whatever talent is theirs to give...that is how we truly love and can love everyone...
....i once said that if i do nothing in this world, the one thing i would like to do is leave this world a better place than when i began...this can be achieved through using my talents that i was given...then i know nothing was wasted and gave it my all even while giving my all i could quite possibly fall in the process...
so now i ask, the talents are yours what are you going to do with them??? will you take the leap of faith and go for it and see what you can come up with...all it takes is letting go and doing...
...God has a way of speaking to us when we least expect it, the best part of the whole thing is He provides exactly what we need to hear at exactly the right time...it is in those moments we are (i believe) provided with His wisdom, or rather wake up and smell the humus moments...
so the story goes...or rather a refresher, just in cases...
a man had servants and bestowed upon them talents, one he gave 5 to, the next 2 and the last one he gave 1 talent to...he returned after awhile & each brought forth their original talents &...
...the one who had started with 5 double it and so did the one who had 2 but the one with only one talent decided for fear of his master to hide it and do nothing with it...the master was ticked b/c this man did not even try to gain interest in what he had or take the risk with what was given to him...the master scolded him and said since you found no use give it to those who doubled what he was given (mt. 25: 14-30)...i am sure you heard a better more poignant version of this; but the message is clear...
...this is the message that was give to me this past sunday and then the priest went on further to discuss the meaning behind it...remember God knows what we need to hear, His medium can come in all forms even sometimes the most obvious...this sunday it was right in my face...God gives us talents of all kinds, yes ones to serve our church, our neighbors, our families, our community, and even those ones that we often decide or choose not to use b/c we do not want to take the risk of messing up...a talent that is so risky that the very thought of it pushes us to hide it or not use it; and then we find ourselves looking back and thinking, regretting how we just wasted what was given to us or rather even worse not even realizing what was there for us to grab and run with it...then poof its gone or given to another that will use it to the max...
...so my message that i am passing on...not a 100% certain but what i do know is sitting in that pew i realized i did not want to look back and think why didn't i take the risk, why did i let the talents given to me to fall by the wayside, why did i not use to the max what God gave me...why am i so afraid to jump and know that God will provide the parachute and sometimes even when that parachute doesn't work He will provide me with another back up...we, not HIM, are the ones that hold back...we are the ones that can't let go, jump and see what he truly has in store for us...you never know it could be better than we could ever imagine....
...the other aspect that made sense to me, if we are given a talent and we use that talent, that is when we are truly giving love away for all those around us to feel...think about it, if beethoven decided it was too risky and because of a physical disability not to write, compose or play would we ever know what sadness can sound like...or if van gogh decided it was not important for you to visualize a beautiful starry night, would we ever have known this masterpiece...
or would we every know what is like to use your talent to serve the world if it wasn't for mother teresa's humility and living by philosophy of that "...If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one..." do not worry that you can't feed a whole country but that you used what you had and fed one...and the list goes on...but what all these and so many who use their talents have in common is that by giving you what God bestowed upon them, they have shown you love through music, through beauty, through compassion and giving, through whatever talent is theirs to give...that is how we truly love and can love everyone...
....i once said that if i do nothing in this world, the one thing i would like to do is leave this world a better place than when i began...this can be achieved through using my talents that i was given...then i know nothing was wasted and gave it my all even while giving my all i could quite possibly fall in the process...
so now i ask, the talents are yours what are you going to do with them??? will you take the leap of faith and go for it and see what you can come up with...all it takes is letting go and doing...
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