Tag: talents

The Imprint

Jennifred Jones

Every human being is born with an imprint on them. We could liken it to a permanent tattoo from God.

It marks us…as important, needed, wanted, valuable, vital, individual, and truly unique.

That’s nonsense! I don’t feel any of those things, I know I’m nothing special…just a ordinary human being.

*Ordinary = no special or distinctive features, uninteresting, commonplace.

*Unique = being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. particularly remarkable, special or unusual

Everybody likes their pet. They’re lots of dogs, cats, horses, even cows, but each one, although they may appear similar, is instantly recognizable by the owner.

Their special features …hair, build, eyes, strength, color, disposition distinguish them from the others.

That’s us! Each is imprinted with a special look, talent, skill set, personality, nationality, likes/dislikes to function perfectly where we are placed in the world to advance it and make things better…because we are there!

Can you believe that? You are where you are …with God’s name-tag on you, signifying He crafted you! and will stand behind you! to help you do what you really want to do!

After all, God puts those dreams, desires and wishes inside us to strengthen, grow, and improve this earth, to live a better life each day.

Begin to look for the imprint placed on your life and move forward in it.

God, Himself, will help you.

Don’t Trash Your Treasure

Jennifred Jones

I don’t have any treasures; nothing I have is worth anything. I don’t have expensive clothes, jewelry or cars. All I have is me and my family…or you might say, ‘all I have is me’.

That is your best treasure! In the end when all is said and done, the only thing we will take to heaven with us is our family, so start there.

But, my family is no good, they don’t care about anything or anybody, much less me, you say. Perhaps they too, don’t realize what a treasure they really are.

I believe God wants us to take out our polishing cloth and shine up the treasures in our lives. When we begin to treat ourselves and others like the valuable treasures they are, they will begin to shine in a new and more beautiful light.

Who decided that diamonds and sapphires were beautiful treasures? All they are are rocks! …Just a plain old ugly looking rock. Think about the quartz geode…nothing interesting there, until you crack it open and look inside. Diamonds and sapphires have to be dug out of the ground, have all the slough brushed off and be cleaned and really examined to see their true value…in other words, how to draw out their inherent, but at the time invisible beauty. It takes a lot of thought to decide the best way to shape and polish a stone for its maximum potential.

That takes too much time…I could be doing something else. I would only be wasting my time.

Yes, it takes time to see the beauty in you and in others; we all have to be ‘studied’. It takes time to grow and develop yourself or another human being.

Is that worth it?

Is life worth it to pour a bit of yourself into helping make someone else better?

A little baby grows slowly and cannot grow well on its own. The loving parent sees value in the baby and works diligently to care for and teach the baby so it can grow and develop into someone who is strong and capable and able to care for itself and others.

The funny thing about caring for yourself and others is that you get better at it and you feel better. The more you help others develop, the more you develop, and the more you develop, the more you can help others.

It’s a circle that gets bigger and bigger and reaches out to more and more, widening the influence from the one good treasure that you decided not to trash but to value and use.

Take out your polishing cloth and begin to see the treasures you already have!

Afraid to Be You?

Jennifred Jones

God made you how you are, and He wants to improve on you.

The thought came to me awhile back, “Are you afraid to be who you are?”

Each of us has gifts and talents and wonderful things on the inside that could be a great help to others if we’d just let them flow out of us.

I think sometimes we get all frustrated feeling inside because we’re not letting go to the outside what God has placed on the inside. God wants to use us and when we quench it and won’t let our gifts out, for fear of what others may think, or fear of failure or ‘what would I do if this thing actually worked?’, so when we quench the good thing God placed in us from coming out it builds up pressure on the inside and makes us miserable.

Have you ever noticed how good you feel on the inside when you do something for someone, or start working on a talent of yours and a tiny bit of progress is beginning to show? That’s the steam engine starting to move forward down the track. It’s not sitting on the rail building up steam until it feels like it’s going to explode; it’s functioning in the purpose for which it was made.

There’s nothing wrong with feeling good about doing something right, or spending time developing a skill or talent so you can be more useful to others in this world. That’s part of how we were designed.

Working together helping others in the way God enables us.

Each person is different. Each has a slightly different craft.

Each is extremely needful. Each needs other people’s help to make it happen.

We are independently dependent! Does that make sense? Yes it does!

Be the ‘you’ God made you to be, and allow others to be the ‘them’ God created them to be.

We are not imitations of one another. We are unique, individually gifted, created human beings, and although our crafts and trades might be similar to another’s, they are unique unto themselves.

God made many beautiful flowers. Why didn’t He just make one? One kind? It would be beautiful and smell pretty and that would be that. No, God makes many different kinds of beautiful flowers. The heavens declare the glory of God.

Let the beauty He placed inside of you come out to declare His glory and help somebody else.