Gifted

so, lately.. Time sure has been passing me by. I have been here and there, and back again all week.
But, of course, God has worked His lovely ways, and has continued to teach me so many valuable lessons.
I've really been paying attention to our gifts the last couple weeks.

Romans 12 says that in Christ, many form one body, and each body part belongs to all the others. We are each given specific gifts, and we are to use them.

I love the gifts God has given me, but it can be so easy to overlook them and purely see the gifts I do not have. It's so easy to see this lack of gift as a fault, and to devote yourself to getting over this "fault"... But, that's not the way it is. God has given us these beautiful gifts and abilities so that we can use them and expand on them.

And.. he hasn't given us these gifts so that we can compare ourselves to others and to see where we're lacking, but to see where other people gifted and trust them to use their gift to the best of their ability.

We are all related, and we need to love the gifts of others as if they were our own.