“What am I doing with my talents?”
This question confronted me again as I meditate during my prayer time this first Sunday of Lent. Was this a nudge from the Lord? I may never know the answer. But this nudge is enough for me to realize that I need to do something more.
About 7 years ago, I started two blogs. One is a personal blog. The other is a sort of socio-political blog. I thought, during those times, that I knew a lot of things. That my political commentaries are correct. The pride in my writing increased when a group of bloggers invited me to join their “collective blog”.
My years of writing for my socio-political blog continued until an incident occurred that caused me to withdraw the blog from the world. That incident is the pin that blew my huffed-up pride. I realized that I am just an arrogant and ignorant man babbling on things that I have limited knowledge of.
That's when I buried my talents and decided to limit myself on blogging about topics that are not risky. “I'm doing this”, I said, “for peace”.
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I know at the onset that being a follower of Jesus Christ is not convenient. It is inconvenient to fast, to abstain, to pray the Rosary everyday, and to read the Bible. The more of these inconveniences I commit the more inconveniences I desire. All of these inconveniences points to the inconvenience of the Cross.
And now, I feel that I'm being nudged to take the inconvenience of my talents. To write about inconvenient things.
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| The pitiful servant digging for his talents. |
I think about the pitiful servant who buried his talents so as to keep it “safe”. I am that servant and I'm digging my talents now hoping that I it is not too late to make it profitable.
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Image sources:
The first image is a painting by Titian entitled "Christ Carrying the Cross" from Wikipainting.
The second image was cropped from the 1712 woodcut of the Parable of the Talents from Wikipedia.
i like this. our (writing) talents are not given to us as pogi points. they are meant for others. in this case, writing is more of a curse than a blessing. hahaha. good luck!
ReplyDeleteBakit may "hahaha". :-P
DeleteThank you for giving the first comment.
Looking forward to your next posts here. This will be more like "Ishmael Ahab: Unleashed!" :D
ReplyDeleteParang The Matrix lang ah.
DeleteWell, when it comes to political commentaries, everyone thinks he has the correct opinion. :D
ReplyDeleteYou're right. I do hope, though, that people lessen their talking and they time to listen so they'll know if their opinions have a grain of Truth.
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