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What Does It Mean To Have A Gift?
by DW Green — October 22, 2015
This is for our clients, our vendors, and staff at DW Green Company. I acknowledge your authenticity and contribution that each of you bring to the world every day.
“Every single being has an amazing, unfathomable gift that only meeting life head-on and heart-on will reveal. And we can’t fully know our gift alone. We need each other to discover the gift, to believe in the gift. And then, to learn how to use it. The challenge for each of us is not to discount our gift because of the indifference of others, and not to abdicate our gift because of the various weights we’re forced to carry.
What does it mean to have a gift? For the lamp, the light it was shaped to carry is its gift. Without a light, a lamp has no purpose. For a person, we are shaped by experience to reveal the light we carry. For a person, how that light comes through us is its gift. And a life cut off from the work of its heart has no purpose. Our call in the midst of our days is to discover the gift that connects our heart with our hands, to discover the light that fills the lamp of life we are given. Once discovered, our work is to never let the light of our gift go out.
A lamp can light any patch of ground, the hand filled with heart can light anything it touches. The various skills of the world are how the gifted hand moves.
Through our gift, we bring our portion of life-force back into the world. Each of us is born a heart’s length from everything that ever lived and from everything yet to be. Every being on Earth is created to be a conduit between the Universal Life-Force and the moment coming alive. Being such a conduit is our birthright. When the gift of life moves through us, we are enlivened to be completely who we are. Whatever form it takes, being completely who we are fulfills us and makes us an instrument of Spirit in the world. Inhabiting our gift and giving it freely is how Spirit renews the world. Like a lightening rod, it’s through our authenticity that the Creative Force of Life informs and grounds the world. It’s opening our heart to the Whole of Life while living in the particular rush of life before us that makes our gifts shimmer and show themselves.
Finding the ways our soul can breathe cleanly and completely is our career. Where that happens is our occupation.”—John O’Donohue
Bless you all.
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