Well, the post title (Shelving our Scotties) grabbed me initially, but L.L. Barkat, the author of this HighCalling.org post, suggests something I don’t remember hearing before: that just because God has given me a gift, I’m not obligated to use it, now … or ever?
This has some relevance for one of the many holes I fell into during my tenure with The Church That Shall Not Be Named. They had needs, and I had skills, energy (at first, anyway), and a constitutional inability to say No. This proved, in the long run, to be a lethal combination for me.
So it’s dangerous when we speak of our jobs and talents as “gifts” from God. Indeed, in some manner they are, but who can eventually put a gift aside without at least some measure of guilt? And some people, burdened by this difficult emotion, will continue to walk out the door wearing an ill-fitting “gift.”
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