Discovering Your Gifts

“When I become aware of my own gifts and give my attention to communicating what is in me… I have the experience of growing toward wholeness. I am working out God’s “chosen purpose,” and I am no longer dependent on what others think and how they respond. The experience itself is confirming…

One reason for difficulty in our lives is that others have confirmed in us the obvious or what they, themselves, wanted to see. To please them, or to get ahead, or to make more money—we then developed those gifts, meanwhile putting aside and forgetting the gifts which were neither so evident nor so valued by others. If our unused gifts have any strength or power of their own, they cry out for recognition—to be given a name.” - Elizabeth O’Connor

This excerpt is from the book Eighth Day of Creation—Gifts and Creativity, available here.

You can read the entire excerpt here.

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