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I've been thinking a lot about spiritual gifts lately...

What exactly are spiritual gifts?

They are blessings given by God to His children for their own benefit, and for the benefit of others.

Everyone has different gifts; nevertheless, everyone does have a gift.

Moroni 10:8-18, 1 Corinthians 12, D&C 46:11, "Gifts of the Spirit"

Find out what your spiritual gifts are by considering what you're good at,

What you're passionate about,

The compliments other people give you, 

etc.

Kneel in prayer 

and ask Heavenly Father what spiritual gifts He has blessed you with.

Then, use them to bless others' lives!

“One of the most comforting teachings of the gospel is that each son and daughter of God—every one of us—is born with an inheritance of gifts, talents, and abilities that can help us through our earthly mission…We cannot be happy and successful in life without gratefully acknowledging those gifts and doing all we can to develop them.  Our problem is never that we have no strengths; the problem comes when we do not recognize our strengths and build upon them."

- Gerald Causse - 

"For When I Am Weak, Then Am I Strong"

Shout out to my dear, dear mother who has the gifts of:

Teaching

Pure love of God and man

Sacrifice

Learning

Obedience

{I am so grateful for her}

Peace out.

Signature Strengths

Talk about an cool personality test!

...Well, technically it's a strengths test.  

It's about pinpointing your signature strengths, so that you can focus your work/activities around them, and live more purposefully and joyfully.

Here's the link.
(It may require you to make a username and password.  After you do that, navigate back to the "VIA Survey of Character Strengths"--that's the questionnaire you want to take!)

And here were my results!

Cool, huh?

If you find out yours... I'd really be interested to hear your results!

The website that I got this from is Martin Seligman's (basically the father of positive psychology) website, Authentic Happiness.  There are many more wonderful things on there that you'll find, should you choose to explore.  

beautiful thing:

we all have unique, wonderful gifts to apply and share.

peace out