Mirror Question

I sliced my hand wide open. A sharp disagreement my flesh had with a molded piece of steel was the cause. My flesh lost I'm sad to say. But the whatnots and wherefores of how the pale skin on my palm flayed to reveal inner muscle and various other oft unseen tissue is unimportant. What really matters is that the hand that was scarred was my right hand, and that is misery indeed, for it is my right hand that is dominant. This was brilliantly shown to me after I could do nothing with this hand, and looked like an inebriated monkey when trying to perform the simplest task. Which led me to think about the blessing from God that is my right hand. It is in this appendage that I display my talents, and when it is crippled I strain with great difficulty to do that which just a day ago was easy. And this made me wonder how often do we forget the great talents that we have been given all in the sense of trying to use our least dominant hand. This is not meant to be literal. In fact, it makes much less sense that way. Figuratively speaking, imagine the talents that you have. I already know some people insist that they have no talents, but that is a falsehood. Everybody has been blessed by God with some gift, be it large or small, and in that gift we exude the likeness of our creator. His talents are on display in us all, and though I will not take the time to enumerate each potential gift, for they are countless, suffice it to say we all have them. Now imagine we are ignoring those gifts. For some this may not be such a stretch. Imagine that we insist for ourselves to be using our figurative left hands, the arenas in which we have been given less abilities and less strengths, when our right hands are perfectly fine and functioning. We may stand there and curse our inabilities in our left hands when we fail to see all that we could do with our right. In simple terms we must ask ourselves, are we using the gifts that God has given us, or are we ignoring them for something we think will bring us greater glory, or something we think we must do instead. This is a good mirror question. For those wondering what a mirror question is, it's that kind of question you ask yourself when you are alone. Looking in a mirror. Yep, it's that easy.