Got Talent? YES YOU DO!!

Have you ever had someone ask you to write down what talents you have or what you are good at?  What happens???   I know that sometimes for me, when I am asked something along those lines, little voices pop up in my head that say..... "What are they talking about..... talent?  What talents?"  Then a long list develops in my mind of all the things that others are really talented at, and I am not...... Why does this happen?  I really think that Satan does not want us to find out the secret that we really are powerful, and that if we knew and understood what we were capable of, and if we could recognize the talents that have been given to us-- we could really thwart his plan!  (And really isn't that what we would like to do).

Why is it easy to see others talents and not our own?

Does this ever happen to you???  You feel like you might be good at something, or that you could contribute something to your sphere of influence, but you lack the confidence to do anything about it.  Maybe, you feel like I have at times -- "What difference would it make?   So-and-so could do a much better job at that than I could...... It really wouldn't help anyone" or even "You're not good enough to do that...... What will people think?"  Well........ ENOUGH OF THAT!!!!!

I think sometimes Satan is doing a better job at diverting our attention, and discouraging us from using our talents than he is at getting us to do some great "sin" ---- however, in doing this we are not being all that we can be, and making a difference in our life or in the lives of those we love.

I was watching a show where there were three sisters, the middle sister felt overshadowed by the other two.  To her, they had talents and she was the one that didn't.  She felt that she was somewhat inferior and could never compare.  Then one day her younger sister came to her and she said something that I have actually thought about a lot....  she said "You have a talent none of the rest of us have-- just find out what it is and use it.  It's doing nothing that is the enemy".

It's doing nothing that is the enemy!!!! I find great truth and wisdom in that.  We all have different talents, and strengths.  I am so grateful for all of the amazing women in my life..... My daughters, my mother and mother-in-law, my grandmothers, my sisters, my friends..... and some women that I know from a distance, who all have what seems to me an abundance of talent--- yet, none of them have exactly the same talents.  I hope you will search for what your talents are, and that you will do something with them!!  I am trying to find out more about my own, and trying to do something about it :)