Some people are extremely gifted, while others go through lives with far humble abilities. In God's eyes, it does not matter what kinds of gifts one have been given, nor the results of such gifts. What is important is how one nurtures one's gifts.
To put it another way: Life itself is a gift from God. What one does with it is one's gift back to God.
What does God expect to receive from one's life? Christ answered the question. He said, "'Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.'" [2] His answer raises another question, how much is one entrusted with? He did not say. Without even a hint, how does one know when one has met what have been required?
Perhaps the answer is simple, yet seemingly impossible, that one is never able to meet what have been required.
What have been required? "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'" [3] And "'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" [4]
Perhaps this entry had failed to define talent fully at the beginning. Perhaps talent ought to be defined fully as God's gift, a unique ability one has at different times in one's life to love God, to love one's parents and siblings, one's relatives and one's neighbor.
[1] http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25, 14-30.
[2] http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/12:81, 48.
[3] http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/12, 30
[4] http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/12, 31
[2] http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/12:81, 48.
[3] http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/12, 30
[4] http://www.usccb.org/bible/mark/12, 31
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