Gifts

We all have special gifts that God gave us. Sometimes it takes us awhile to figure out that the thing we love to do the most is probably the thing God wants us to excel in. For me it has always been writing. I started in junior high writing poetry. In high school I wrote a poem book, basically that is a really long poem split into different parts. And ever since then I write on and off. But when it comes to my writing I feel so strongly about it that when I sit down to write something it has to be perfect the first time, and so I struggle to make it perfect. Gifts are things we excel in, they may not always be perfect, but as I am learning it is OK to make mistakes. I can't punctuate right for the life of me. I never could! But I can write a pretty compelling story, even with bad punctuation. And if I didn't have spell check there would be a lot of misspelled words. It's hard to perfect the gifts God has given us. And sometimes I think we focus so much that we set ourselves up for failure. I know I can write. I know I'm good at it. Give me a minute and I can just start rambling some profound verse that I just made up. I guess I feel like I have to use this gift in such a way to reach the world that it overwhelms me sometimes. We need to learn that it's OK to make a mistake and it's OK to not always know what were doing. Just as long as we know that God will lead us through our failures.