{"id":165,"date":"2012-05-25T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onfire\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:52:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:52:45","slug":"find-your-gift-and-use-it-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onfire\/2012\/05\/25\/find-your-gift-and-use-it-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Find your Gift and use it. WHY."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Your Gift<\/a> is an insight wrapped in talent and shared with others.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why find and use it?<\/p>\n

Four reasons:<\/p>\n

1) To start down this Gift-giving path is to turn toward God and the truth you\u2019ve been created and for a reason.<\/p>\n

2) Finding your Gift and using it means you affirm that you matter. What you do, or don\u2019t do, makes a difference in the lives of other people and, ultimately, on the planet.<\/p>\n

3) If you don\u2019t move toward God and your Gift, you relegate yourself to being a consumer of whatever comforts, diversions, trivial pursuits (power, wealth, fame) and low-level purposes (judgment, revenge, resignation, self-protection) you can discover. As a result…<\/p>\n

4) You \u201ckill time\u201d with your life. You hate that.<\/p>\n

In the deepest part of you, you know you were born for so much more.<\/p>\n

– – – – –<\/p>\n

photo credit: Army Medicine<\/a> (creative commons)<\/p>\n

– – – – –<\/p>\n

Dear Reader: this is a new Beliefnet blog. I need your help to make it a success! Would you subscribe (see bar above on the right) plus forward this post to a friend who may enjoy it? Also, I appreciate your comments.\u00a0 Thank you,\u00a0 Gloria<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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@gloriabethrose<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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