Reflected Gifts

What are reflected gifts?

I have given this concept, this philosophy, this thought process, a lot of consideration. Like many contemplative thoughts, they occur in the middle of the night; causing you to startle from sleep, and keeping you from returning until such time as you do something with this nocturnal disturbance.

Through life experiences, mine and others, I have contemplated the concept of gifts. I think we all have them, gifted to us at a time before we were conceived. Almost predetermined. Predestined. Not in a scary kind of way, but in the true nature of a gift.

When gifts are recognized and acknowledged by the person who holds them, it is like a child who opens the best gift they have ever received; and they play with the gift incessantly...... at least for a while; until the next gift manifests itself.

That is how some of us have managed the gifts with which we have been bestowed. We are excited about their discovery, like a new toy. But the feeling lasts only as long as the toy seems new. Then we find ourselves eagerly awaiting the next new toy. The next gift.

But the gifts that have been bestowed upon us, that lie within us, are not quite like toys. They are more like seeds that need to be nurtured, watered, fed; Cultivated, contemplated, and given significant consideration. That seed, that thought, that innate and even divine ability can become something magnificent; but only if cared for properly.

It is only when we have properly cultivated our inherent gifts that those gifts can then be reflected; mirrored; transmitted to others .........and at the same time, reflected back to ourselves.

The gift that is reflected in the mirror is the gift of you. Cultivate it into something spectacularly brilliant!!