Gifts You Can Offer

Consider that you are a person brimming with gifts. Do you dare offer them to a world always in need of love and wisdom? Allow yourself to identify what you have to give.

• You can offer the gift of experience—all you have learned by doing, and some things you’ve learned the hard way.
• You can offer the gift of listening—whether or not you have anything to say.
• You can offer the gift of creativity—whatever you do well and joyfully.
• You can offer the gift of silence—when the world is crazy with noise.
• You can offer the gift of words—when others need to hear hope and common sense.
• You can offer the gift of your presence—when someone else needs a person close by.
• You can offer the gift of your witness—when a story needs to be remembered and told.
• You can offer the gift of forgiveness—when there’s no way a person can make up for what’s happened.
• You can offer the gift of hospitality—because everyone needs to sit down to a good meal and a comfy bed.
• You can offer the gift of laughter—because the world needs a lot of that.
• You can offer the gift of prayer—because the world needs that even more.

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