{"id":7250,"date":"2013-07-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:46:52","slug":"strengths-or-non-strengths-what-to-work-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/07\/28\/strengths-or-non-strengths-what-to-work-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengths or Non-strengths, What to Work On"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, I was grateful for the response to the last blog. That was the one about ceilings<\/em>, whether they exist (they do) and whether it matters (not so much). It seems a topic more have thought about than you might think.<\/p>\n

One of the comments invites further comment on my part. It was written by my friend (and financial counselor) Mark Taylor. A glance at the last post (listed at right) will reveal his full remark. Among his points is his own sense of being short on creativity and wondering if God is more pleased with developing our strengths or the areas where we are naturally lacking.<\/p>\n

As for the first, knowing Mark, he seems plenty creative for the line of work he’s in. My confidence in him as\u00a0a financial counselor is strengthened by his more conservative view of things. He’s diligent, he researches, he stays aware of his field. I, with my flights of fancy and creative whims, need his perspective and know it.<\/p>\n

On the other, about what pleases God, first let me separate the theological from the practical. My sense is that God, being the epitome of love, accepts everything we do. That is, with the exception of sin. He is for<\/em> us! And what we want to work on, our areas of strength or others that just interest us, is a decision he leaves to us.<\/p>\n

From the practical perspective, however, it’s in finding our strengths that we learn who we really are, and make our particular contribution.<\/p>\n

Let the other areas be developed by those that have them. I, then, will depend on them for help in time of need, and they me when the time comes.<\/p>\n

That’s only if my talent is developed. (It’s not much use until then.)<\/p>\n

I heard this once: \u201cGod holds us responsible for what we have, not for what we don’t have.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of us have something.<\/p>\n

Work on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With so much that interests us, and so many area where we are somewhat capable, where should we apply our energy and time? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10700,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}