challenge – Mrs. Goodfinder

This thought just now popped into my mind…’human vending machine’…

Is that all some of us feel we are, or are letting ourselves become?

Are we allowing others to ‘put money into us’ and take out of us what they want without our genuine approval?

This could go in a multitude of ways…in our job, in our family, in our friend relationships, etc., etc., etc.

Think about it…have we lost our humanity and become a vending machine where we allow others, no matter what their rank or status to stand before us and tell us what they want and we give it to them no questions asked?

Yes, we are to be giving, loving, helpful and serving others, but to be treated like a disposable machine with no say-so, no opinion of our own, only following the will of others is not how we were designed.

We each are a unique valuable piece of God’s creation with a purpose. We are not another cog in the wheel that can be replaced if broken off and discarded.

Every single one of us…you included!!!…has value and an output to give in this world that is your own style, with your trademark on it to be used to benefit this world.

You were not designed… created… to be a mere follow-a-longer, but to offer input, a different perspective, a good suggestion, a new way of doing the same old things.

You are not to quench or allow others to quench the you in you!

You have a right to think, and a right to speak up for yourself without another’s approval.

We do not have a right to withhold the good inside of us from coming out because someone else might not like it.

Remember, you are not a human vending machine, only giving out what others want or say. You are a human being with a free will and mind to use and develop and grow to become a strong and better person and help others become better stronger human beings, if in no other way than by watching you.

We have a big responsibility don’t we? But we are up for the challenge!

We all have art in us. We are all craftsmen, artsmen, artists, if you will, of one or many things.

We all have a desire, a bent to make or do something. There is something that peaks our interest…working with numbers, working with fabric, wood, metal, designing roads and cities, buildings, designing computers and software; working on cars, assembling items, organization of anything. I believe it is an art to know how to clean and decorate a home!

There are a myriad of types of art besides drawing, painting, or sculpting.

Our art…your art, is needful.

I grew up thinking ‘art’ was only for a chosen few that were crafty, and really crafty didn’t ‘qualify’ as art back then. Art was Rembrandt and Michelangelo and Picasso and Renoir.

Art was something beautiful that others could make but you could not. It was made by people you did not know and never would.

Artists were poor, yet driven, and in their time were thought a bit odd and eccentric, but later on their work was magnified and they were seen in a different light.

The challenge is to discover what our art is and to get in the groove and play it.

Our art will be something we are good at, or would like to become good at, it is something we look forward to doing and gives us pleasure as we work on it –awaiting the finished result.

If it is a drudgery to do or even think about doing, it probably isn’t your art, it is someone else’s.

Never fear, you have your own good skills to develop and share with others. Yours will be different but it will be yours, uniquely yours.

Erwin McManus said, “Don’t be the best imitation of someone else’s talent.”

Wouldn’t the world be uninteresting if everyone’s art looked the same?

What makes genuine art so very costly is that it is irreproducible. It did not come off an assembly line; it is different every time.

What is your art?

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The Human Vending Machine

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