We were not all born with the same gifts




A gift is anything we have that we did not work for. People with a high intelligence will probably fare better than those born with low intelligence.

People who were raised in good families have a gift. Not everyone was raised with love, security, positive feedback and values… The “work ethic” is also a gift. Some parents taught it to their kids and some parents did not…

The bottom line is to understand that what we have and who we are has a lot to do with factors we received in a package deal when we came into the world. If that realization doesn't make you thankful, nothing will…

Clearly some people are short of gifts and some have gifts and do not use them well. For both groups their security and quality of life runs a deficit…

But what of the rest whose gifts (and usually some effort) have yielded a surplus? It is easy to find people who have surpluses…most of us do. And most of us squander huge amounts of surplus money or time on personal gratification and give very little or nothing in return.

The attitude of “I worked hard and I deserve…” does not consider the very large degree that our gifts contributed to what we have…

By donating some of our surplus time, energy, and money, we express thankfulness for the abundance of gifts with which we were born.



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