When I think of someone who is gifted I immediately compare what they are skilled or better at than the average person. A gifted singer, writer, skate boarder or speaker perhaps. Are little people gifts? If you have a little person (someone who is old enough to believe desperately in wanting to be a dinosaur when they get big) in your life, are you gifted? Here in Bondi there is an unexpected ogle of little people. They are seen in strollers, on bikes, skateboards and Surfboards. They experience parks, outstretched arms, sun, pooping birds and quiet but suddenly loud cafes. I like little people allot! I believe they turn everyone around them instantly into gifted individuals.
Gifts…? What are gifts? I would have thought that gifts are tangibly comparable ideas or skills each person has but I think there’s more to them. Gifts are taking a different shape in my mind since I’ve been here. A shape not recognised in geometry. Webster cant define them. A formula cant contain them. A smile may convey their core message but Only Gods fingerprints are unique enough to create them.
Last night I sat at the feet of a gifted man of God. Literally at his feet because he gave up his chair for me because the small room couldn’t hold anymore. Our feet shared the same square foot of space for the remainder of the Bible study. It would appear he was sitting at my feet but in reality he was the teacher and I was the student. I got to thinking about what makes us do what we do. Why did this man honour me in such a way? My thoughts were not what we respond to but why we are who we are. God seems to bring so very interesting scenarios into my life that I cant help but interact with them. If I take the time I seem to naturally get a better glimpse of who I am at the end of every encounter. Regardless of how efficiently I entered or exited the engagement by todays standards, I can look back on it and see a piece of who I am. I find the more personal the experience was at the time the more prone I am to change into a more unique me. Little people are very personal.
Bondi is filled with people who are regularly experiencing rather personal scenarios. The majority of people here are young families, hence the reason for the ogle of little people. These parents have the opportunity to see themselves and God on such an intimate level all the time. They have the opportunity to be incredibly gifted individuals at any given moment. If God gives us personally engineered scenarios to make us more into the uniquely designed incredible selves we were created to be and if we accomplish becoming more like Him in the process, I am potentially surrounded by very gifted people! How do I show them their worth, their gifts, their purpose?! How do I convey the gifts of God? Are you taking the opportunity to walk in your gifts and to show others their gifts? I hope so.
Rock on!
David Snader 