Special words

A few weeks ago, after Steve Jobs passed away, my friend Lauren sent us girls this morning devotional. I loved it, and wanted to share it all with you as well.

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
~Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011


Matthew 25:29
"...To everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away."


This is one of the final verses in the "Parable of the Talents," and it offers a warning. The parable is telling us that we must use the gifts that we have been given, and those gifts will multiply themselves. If we choose to live a life where we do not take full advantage of what we have been blessed with, everything will be taken away. This is the biblical equivalent of the law of attraction - you will receive more of what you put out in terms of thoughts and actions (or inaction). If you continually focus on being good enough or on not having gifts, you will continue to have none, to not be good enough in your mind. If instead you focus on your good qualities and the qualities which enrich your life, you will surely attract more of that into your life.

Erma Bombeck says it pretty good in this quote..."When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"."