Sunday Rockin Chair Toughts Pt7

We’re born with an “audience” to reach. You don’t have to be a public figure to have an audience of your own. Any friendship or acquaintance; any customer base or neighbor is an audience. There are no “chance meetings” in our lifetime. Of course public figures, like entertainers, have the most obvious audiences but an auto mechanic has an audience too! A dentist has an audience – a grocery store checker has an audience! Our neighborhood is an audience. We have a gift that comes into play when we interact with others. We have a gift they need and they have a gift that we need. Gifts are unique to each individual and whatever our “gift” is, there are lives that will be lived incompletely unless we “give” them the gift we’ve been given to deliver to them. How do we know who needs our gift and how do we know when to give it? We don’t! When I strap on my guitar and walk onto a stage it’s obviously “time to give my gift” but what about afterwards?

Our individual gift is a unique ingredient that will help complete the life of another and encourage and refresh them on their journey. Nothing happens by accident and every interaction is an opportunity to “give the gift” designed specifically for others; at that certain time and place. We may meet and become lifelong friends or our paths may cross only once but either way - an exchange takes place; we have something to offer each other. We each have a talent designed to bless each other at that moment in time. We think of talent as an obvious gift of music or athletic ability but everyone is talented with something that makes us individually unique. Our uniqueness is the gift we share with the world around us; something I require and something you require; something custom made for others. It may not even be noticeable for years after we meet. Your gift can be a word - a song - a smile … something … but it’s a gift that I’ll do without until you give it to me. Your gift will never be in my life unless you put it there. No one else is able to give your gift to me; only you! The same is true for me. We’re all missing pieces of the puzzle in someone else’s life. We complete the puzzle in each other’s lives by being who God called us to be.