Revelations and aptitude.

        I have been asked how one can tell what gifts they have been given. I didn't know at the time. Now I recognize a unified voice of query among all younger folk. "What talents do I have?" For many this question is a catalyst to self pity and sin. A wander into the web. When you're being eaten it is hard to tell when you are special. When you are all special.
       All have been given gifts. Given them from a loving God. All hidden by the world, buried beneath vice. Most common is pride. Looking at those who have not only found, but nourished, their abilities and we find that suddenly we have nothing. That discourages us from having anything. Why should it matter? What do they have to do with us? We may not receive praise for our acknowlegeably smaller successes, but we didn't do it for praise. We did it to fully live. Without the exercise of talents and expression of self accompanied with that how can we ever accomplish happiness in this life. Not knowing where to look for the pot of gold and not knowing what to spend it on.
        Where do we look? None-other than our best selves. Look when we are serving, loving, being the best we can be. How do we accomplish our successes? Deduce what is different, what we individually notice about the gospel? About love? About self-control? About humility? What does it do for you, for me, for us? Remove the dregs of worldly and see what lies beneath. We are archeologically uncovering our true selves from mounds of dirt. Remove it, the soil, use it to plant flowers in later (The best the soil can offer). Look at what truly is. And, now, we can see what we are capable of. Revealed aptitude.