Shrinking or expanding

How do you choose to live each day? Do you spend your time sharing or withholding the gifts you have been given? For you to answer this question you first need to be aware of what those gifts are. We live in a world where our natural inclination is to point out what is negative within us. Many of us were raised to believe that acknowledging our gifts was a display of ego and self-centeredness. Imagine a wondrous gift presented to you out of pure love. Do you think you would be instructed to hide it from the world for fear that it would be stolen from you? Your gifts can never be taken from you. Others may try to diminish them because of their own insecurities, It is only you who has the power to shrink or expand them. Sometimes you know immediately what those gifts are. Other times it takes awhile to discover what they might be. That doesn't really matter. What matters is what you do with them once you know what they are. It may be healing, building, analyzing, writing, speaking, or painting. No two of you have the same exact set of gifts. That is the beauty of being human. What gifts are you shrinking or expanding today?