If I were to ask you to make a list of your gifts, would you be able to do that? Right now, writing them down? Or would you have to ponder this and listen to that little voice inside your head that puts you down for thinking that you are ‘gifted’?
You DO have gifts. Not everyone is a Mozart but everyone IS the composer of their own life. You string together the notes of the melody by the choices that you make every day. Big and little choices. Are they harmonious? Or do they seem discordant at times? The harmonious times are the ones in which you are living with and sharing your gifts so that you are in flow with the World around you.
I know people who have the gift of peacemaking – they are able to mediate disputes, to settle arguments, to smooth ruffled feathers. How upsetting situations could be around them if they kept their mouths shut and refused to negotiate peace. Others have the gift of being incisive and organized and they share that gift with others. Still others are musicians who play for the joy of the sharing.
Your gifts don’t have to be shared in your occupation or your work. You don’t have to go into business sharing your gifts, although you can. Sometimes your greatest gift is to be shared with the people who are closest to you, those you live with, your family. Search your inner self and be honest as you identify, accept and value your own gifts.
Look at your childhood. What talents and gifts did you display? Were you always drawing pictures? Maybe you are creative at problem solving rather than painting art. Were you always building something, from blocks, your Erector Set, model kits? Perhaps your gift is to be the architect of new solutions to old problems, building computers or software, building structure out of chaos.
I used to play Catholic priest. OK, I was a girl and the Church wouldn’t ordain me but that didn’t change the fact that I was always the one who lined up the neighborhood kids and played ‘Communion,’ where I would give them Necco Wafers instead of the host. I went on to be ordained but not by the Catholic Church and Communion isn’t Necco Wafers but I do feel I have a gift as a spiritual teacher.
In my childhood I also saw things that others couldn’t see. This was the seed of the intuitive gifts that I now use in my work as an intuitive coach and medium. Imaginary friends are glimpses through the veil between dimensions and indicate gifts of a special kind of ‘sight’ in kids who have these friends. Our granddaughter, when she was a crawling infant, used to comfort the other kids at day care when they got upset. The nurse at the center said they called Makayla their ‘little healer’ because she could calm a screaming baby with a look or a touch. All this before she could even walk! Makayla does have a gift of healing that was evident as a tiny infant.
So what is your gift? What gifts do you have that you have been hiding under a basket? Maybe it is time now for you to lift the basket and share your gifts.
These gifts are meant to be given! Thank you for sharing your gifts with the rest of us.
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: “Lift the Basket from your gifts!” by Rosemary Bredeson
February 1, 2011 — RosemaryIf I were to ask you to make a list of your gifts, would you be able to do that? Right now, writing them down? Or would you have to ponder this and listen to that little voice inside your head that puts you down for thinking that you are ‘gifted’?
You DO have gifts. Not everyone is a Mozart but everyone IS the composer of their own life. You string together the notes of the melody by the choices that you make every day. Big and little choices. Are they harmonious? Or do they seem discordant at times? The harmonious times are the ones in which you are living with and sharing your gifts so that you are in flow with the World around you.
I know people who have the gift of peacemaking – they are able to mediate disputes, to settle arguments, to smooth ruffled feathers. How upsetting situations could be around them if they kept their mouths shut and refused to negotiate peace. Others have the gift of being incisive and organized and they share that gift with others. Still others are musicians who play for the joy of the sharing.
Your gifts don’t have to be shared in your occupation or your work. You don’t have to go into business sharing your gifts, although you can. Sometimes your greatest gift is to be shared with the people who are closest to you, those you live with, your family. Search your inner self and be honest as you identify, accept and value your own gifts.
Look at your childhood. What talents and gifts did you display? Were you always drawing pictures? Maybe you are creative at problem solving rather than painting art. Were you always building something, from blocks, your Erector Set, model kits? Perhaps your gift is to be the architect of new solutions to old problems, building computers or software, building structure out of chaos.
I used to play Catholic priest. OK, I was a girl and the Church wouldn’t ordain me but that didn’t change the fact that I was always the one who lined up the neighborhood kids and played ‘Communion,’ where I would give them Necco Wafers instead of the host. I went on to be ordained but not by the Catholic Church and Communion isn’t Necco Wafers but I do feel I have a gift as a spiritual teacher.
In my childhood I also saw things that others couldn’t see. This was the seed of the intuitive gifts that I now use in my work as an intuitive coach and medium. Imaginary friends are glimpses through the veil between dimensions and indicate gifts of a special kind of ‘sight’ in kids who have these friends. Our granddaughter, when she was a crawling infant, used to comfort the other kids at day care when they got upset. The nurse at the center said they called Makayla their ‘little healer’ because she could calm a screaming baby with a look or a touch. All this before she could even walk! Makayla does have a gift of healing that was evident as a tiny infant.
So what is your gift? What gifts do you have that you have been hiding under a basket? Maybe it is time now for you to lift the basket and share your gifts.
These gifts are meant to be given! Thank you for sharing your gifts with the rest of us.
________________________
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