We all have Talents to Share

Talents

We all have talents and abilities. Some are more able to have faith. Others are given the talent to believe. There are many talents. Each of us has our own and it should be magnified or increased. By using our talent we help others and ourselves. I met a psychic/clairvoyant who I was able to visit with one Saturday in a health fair in the booth next to mine. My first question to her was at what age she knew she was different in her ability to "see" the future and lives of those around her. She told me she was about 5. I asked her about her talent growth and if it increased over time. She responded that it had and she desired to have it grow at a young age. I discovered in this conversation something important for me. My talent was recognizable to a few others, and I was in charge of my own progress and use of my talent.

Another point came to me later in the week after my experience that another patient conversation brought out. Our talents in one area don't automatically give us superiority or advantage over another person. We must all grow and progress within our own areas. Spiritual direction in personal growth is not automatic for individuals with clairvoyance, energy readings, aura viewings, or other such gifts. They must each acquire knowledge and growth on a spiritual level equally as you and I. One gift is not better than the others, there are only better users of their gifts for the benefit of others. By using their talent or gift to it's fullest the giver is able to bless the lives of many others.

A woman who was aware of her gift of clairvoyance came to a patient of mine and shared with her the symptoms of pneumonia, stressing to her the importance of receiving prompt help. Two days later my patient developed the exact symptoms and sought my help. In later discussions the woman with the physic gift confided she knew before it happened and had warned the patient of the impending illness. Due to the nature of her talent many friends of the woman in the past ridiculed her ability and sought to discredit her. Her ability is real, however due to others not fully accepting her abilities she has chosen not to share her talent outside of her immediate family and in rare instances such as the one mentioned. How much more benefit would the community at large receive from her being encouraged to use her gift instead of stifling it? Wouldn't you want her to be your neighbor, sister, or employee? I would. What about the rest of our gifts? Are we not all valuable to others in our own way? Is not our community less when we don't grow our talents?

I have attracted a number of interesting patients in my practice. One patient was a former CIA operative nicknamed "Lucky". He acquired this name after being shot through the heart wall while parachuting behind North Korean borders. The north Koreans became aware of his presence as he was coming down and shot him. A bullet went through his chest and pierced his heart. He survived. Another time he was on assignment in Czechoslovakia and was injured by a guard that shot him through his abdomen. I guess if you survive being shot behind enemy lines and survive twice you get to be nick named Lucky too. He shared with me his talent. He explained since he was a young child he had he ability to see the auras of others. He thought as a young child that everyone saw what he saw. I was one of the few who he told in his adult life. As he shared this with me I felt privileged to learn of his talent and amazed at the lack of our societal wisdom to use him in a greater capacity. He related how he saw the color and intensity of the energy around individuals and determined their intent and demeanor from their aura. It didn't take me long to realize his confidence in me to not only share his talent but allow me to work with him to restore his health.

There have been others with similar stories, each time they shared similar stories as "Lucky". Some with the gift of discernment, the ability to know the intent of those around them. Others with this gift are able to know the thoughts of those around them as they think them. This makes it very hard to pass anything off on them that is not your real self. Wow, would you want them in your human resource department? I feel honored to have them as patients and friends.

There are a number of different gifts. Should you desire to find your own, you may need to do as little as ask your mother, or dig a little deeper to uncover that which may not be so readily apparent to you. A list of some of the gifts exists in the Bible in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. The Book of Mormon has a similar list in Moroni chapter 10. A quote for the scriptures entitled Doctrine and Covenants in the 46th section and 11th verse proceeds:

11.) For all have not every gift given unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every man is given a gift by the Spirit of God.

12.) To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.

Every person is given a gift that we all may be profited. Only by accepting our gifts and using them may we enjoy the full benefits of these gifts as a community and a society. We are in turn commanded in Sec. 46

vs. 8) Wherefore, beware lest ye are deceived; and that ye may not be deceived seek ye earnestly the best gifts, always remembering for what they are given;

If God loves us, as I believe He does, He certainly would not enjoy having us deceived. It is interesting to note that one of the specific ways he helps us to not be deceived or lead astray is to attain some of these “best gifts”.