Page 15 - Grace Connections December 2021

Have You Used Your Gifts?

Pastor Sue Garnett

As we close out 2021 and Well, I can tell you I am not

prepare to enter 2022, I have proud to say to some extent I
started to contemplate the have ignored some of my gifts.

different areas in which God has I have sat in my quiet little
blessed me.
space, ignoring the call of God on

I have been blessed with a my life, and have not done much

Godly and caring husband of with the gifts He gave me.
over 46 years, 2 wonderful I had a word spoken over me

children, 7 beautiful a couple of years ago by a pastor,
grandchildren and 4 great whom I hold in very high regard,

grandchildren. I have been that I would become bold and
blessed with a church family that start speaking out, yet I started

never ceases to amaze me in withdrawing into my shell

their love and compassion for thinking, God can’t possibly mean
others and I have so many more me. He can’t possibly use

blessings that I could mention.
someone who won’t know the
Then I began to think about right words to say and can’t even

the gifts God has given me and remember where to find all the
have I used them to bless Him, or right scriptures.

have I just stuck them in a Recently I have started to
corner and ignored them? hear in my spirit that He didn’t

give me those gifts for me to store