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Christian Meditation with Anita MathiasAuthor: Anita Mathias
Brief poetic meditations on the great Christian and Biblical themes by writer and blogger, Anita Mathias. I am currently meditating through the Gospel of Matthew, a meditation a week. Scripts on Anitamathias.comPlease check out my memoir, Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk (and widely available internationally). Language: en-gb Genres: Christianity, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Using God's Gift of our Talents: A Pathway to Joy and Abundance
Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
Send us a textJesus, in his Parable of the Talents, vividly illustrates how human life and God’s kingdom work. Our life is a story weco-write with God, who hands us plot outlines: geography,gender, genetics, socio-economic position, creativity, health,personality, temperament, as well as our unique, innate gifts. God, considering our abilities, assigns us niches in hisecosystem, prominent vocations, or quieter ones. ButGod is kind to all, lavishing on us life itself, nature, sunshine, sleep, the joy of movement, and human kindness. As well as individual gifts! We each have 600 to 700 talents– Rick Warren cites research! –most of which we never use. Our vocations are a test, and our happiness and biographypivot on how we use our gifts. Those who rarely squandertime but invest in their talents lead ever-bigger lives. Their gifting and influence expands exponentially. They spot andmine hidden opportunities, and experience success, financially, too; an always-interesting life, and the exhilarationof achieving their goals with good work which blesses many. Some, though, do not nurture their talents, feeling resentfuland defeated as they side-eye those with five times their assetsof family, education, charisma, connections, capital, time, intelligence, good looks or good sense. Fearing their work maycome to nothing, they attempt little, leading grudging, lazylives. Their talents, unused, wither, creating a vacuum for thehard-working to shine. This slothfulness leads to loneliness,sadness, and judgement, while the gifts of the diligent multiply. To savour the excitement of living, we need eyes brightwith bounce-out-of-bed purpose—and the gift of purposehas been given to us: to focus our lives on excellent workwith our gifts, great or small. This delivers us from wasting our precious lives on triviality. It rescues us froma black hole of addictions to success, money, fame, or phones. It is the pathway to happiness and abundance. And, on any day, during any decade of our lives, we canstart revising them, and rewrite a beautiful new story. And though we may be well, well behind those who havesteadfastly used their abilities, if we now assess what wecan do with our current strength and energy, which changesas we do, and then nourish our neglected gifts, starting with those which most make our hearts sing, those talentswill blossom, filling the rest of our lives with aliveness, new interests, and new opportunities to be a blessing tothe world which God so loves. And, in God’s kindness,our five loaves may yet feed five thou My memoir: Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India UK USA Blog: anitamathias.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anitamathiaswriter/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anita.mathias/Twitter : anitamathias1My book of essays: Wandering Between Two Worlds (US) and UK
