Our Weekly Thought – November 9 - 15, 2020

This coming week’s Gospel passage (Matthew 25:14-30) reminds us that we each have talents and that we are asked to use them wisely. Talents are not evenly distributed. Instead, we are each asked to manage wisely what we have been given and not worry about how many or few we have. How does one determine one’s gifts or talents? Some of them are natural and obvious, even to ourselves. Others need to be exercised or developed. Still others are learned entirely. With some gifts, others can see them in us and will help us recognize and develop them. This week, consider your own talents; think about other neighbors who have real or hidden talents, and encourage them to use them; be prepared to teach; be ready as well for advice from others to you about how you might exercise underused or undiscovered gifts. The more we do this as a community, the better we will reflect the love of God in this world.