God Given Talents
There is a parable in the New Testament about talent. God gives us talents and he expects us to use
them. He doesn’t want us to die with our
light still undiscovered within us. He
wants us to take our skills, our strengths, our passions and build a life with
them. A life in which each person cooperates in the bigger picture of life and
stands strong and firm with others to
bring our world to a more perfect union.
We seem to have forgotten this parable somewhere along
the way and appearances of wealth and class and stature seem to have taken over
the day. Our ancestors survived for
centuries without computers and IPhone yet it seems like these are necessities
this day to do just about everything. Including
using or selling your talents and that is probably God’s plan for the IPhone
and computer too.
I am a hand embroidery artist, a writer, a talker
and a listener (except it seems when it is advice being offered to me). Hand embroidery is probably a counter to the
amount of words that swim around my head on a daily or momentary basis. I am an open book; I have no filters and
truly believe that if God wanted me to live a life filled with secrets he
wouldn’t have given me a mouth or a brain.
Nobody gets through life unscathed. We awaken, we live, we love, we grieve, we
hand embroider. We carry on. We suffer in silence hoping that no one
figures out that we have screwed up, we are feeling lonely or that we are
suffering in a life that no longer speaks to our soul. But with everyone dealing with some issue we
have to step back and learn the lessons that are there for the taking. We are all on Planet Earth together, what affects
one of us affects all of us, when there is distrust and secrecy in our body
there is secrecy and distrust in the world.
When we sit in a chair at night and find the first
moment of joy in the day embroidering, playing a guitar, or reading a good book
we are with God. All is right in our
universe. These are the moments we
should make more of, the moments when we are at peace. Our world needs it, our families need it but
most of all we need it. I’m not saying
give up your day job but give up the five minutes you spend complaining about
it and use that time more wisely.
I’ve made a decision to live my life more wisely so
there may be more blog posts or less blog posts or more hand embroidered
pillows or less hand embroidered pillows but I am actively searching out God
and I will actively and accurately describe that search. This piece was made as a pillow when I did
not believe in myself or my talents. It
is now a framed piece because I do.
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