Living a Full Life, part 1

For those who were at service on Sunday, January 6, 2013, a few bullet points to jog your memory:

Christmas is over and what are you doing with our gifts?  Are you using them or have you put them away so nothing can happen to them?

In the parable of the three talents, the two servants who used what they were given to be in charge of experienced increase.  The one, who, for fear of loss, buried what he was in charge of, experienced no increase.

And so it is with our God given gifts, one of which is the awareness of the Presence of God. Use that awareness and our life “increases.” Hold it back and our life experience is stagnant.

Another gift of God is compassion.  Our world, both inner and outer, is crying out for compassion.

People, who exercise their gifts (the awareness of the Presence of God, compassion, etc.) day after day, little by little expand their experience of those gifts (we experience what we express).  People who do not exercise their gifts find that they wither away and life becomes more and more distressing.

Matthew 7:16, “By their fruit ye shall know them.”

Matthew 7:26, “And everyone who hears these sayings of mine and who does not do them shall be likened unto a foolish man who built his house upon the sand.”

James 1:22, “But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.”

Clearly the scripture above and the Parable of the Three Talents indicate the necessity of action in applying spiritual “ideas,” or “principles.”

Aristotle, “In order to learn the things we need to know, we learn by doing.”

Exercise your gifts and live a full life