So, Thursday night we looked at the next chapter in our Congratulations...Your Gifted study book (Chapter 4). We looked at what abilities we have to offer. Knowing our abilities can help us learn our SHAPE. Each of us is so unique in how we were created and sometimes it can be difficult for us to see our own unique abilities in the cloud of everyone else’s abilities. The book talked about certain ways to discover your abilities and I am reminded of one real simple way, many times your passions (those things you are passionate about) are in-line with your abilities.

I. Craig, have a passion to teach youth and I also have the ability to stand in front of a crowd of students and teach them without losing my lunch. I am passionate about people, I like relationships and I have the ability to make friends easily.

Not everyone's passions and abilities line up, as we learned Thursday night, but for most of us they do inter-mesh. So, what do you do if they don't line up? You begin to serve (and even if they do line up you serve), because serving others is the best way to find out who you are and what your abilities are. After all that is the purpose of our gifts, to serve other in the name of Jesus Christ!!!!