“Everyone has something special they can do. Sometimes we need help finding out what that is.”
This was approximately the last line of a children’s story I read on Sunday to introduce the theme. I obviously can’t reproduce the story here, but Dusty the Sheepdog is a tale of a kelpie who was an utter failure at being a sheepdog. It turned out he was deaf, so the children trained him to be helpful doing things that don’t need hearing.
Sometimes it is hard to appreciate people’s gifts. Sometimes they get on our nerves and we don’t want to get to know them. Some people are so shy or have been socialised to not show what they have to offer.
Everyone has something special they can do – sometimes we need help finding out what it is. What is your gift? How can you help bring out the gifts of others?
