Talents

January 4, 2012

(I hope this will be the last of my two-a-days as I am now caught up - if I can STAY caught up, there will be one post a day!)

This is the latest example of my mother's creative talents.  While she was here at Thanksgiving she created two of these valances to update my living room, and I love the new look.  She also made the ones that these new ones replaced.  Mom has an amazing talent for decorating and creating a magazine-perfect room.  She also has talents for sewing (even creating her own patterns if she doesn't find one to her liking), flower arranging, and many other creative talents. She's a good dancer.   I did not inherit ANY of those talents, so I find them all the more fascinating and I am quite appreciative of her efforts on my behalf.
My dad's talents lie in other areas:  he is very mechanically-minded - doing such things as erecting a water tank on his property (no wells and no running water otherwise) and then creating a pipe system into the house so that the water pressure is excellent, rebuilding vintage motorcycles and manufacturing his own parts when parts were unavailable (and then racing those bikes and placing!), and many other such tasks.  He is also quite a gardener and a woodworker. He also is a good dancer.  I also did not inherit ANY of those talents, although I certainly enjoy seeing his projects work.
So, here I am.  What talents did I inherit?  I'm not sure.  I have plenty of talents - music and photography come to mind.  I am a great thinker and have ideas I know will work (although I'm often a little short on follow-through).  I think I am a good baker. I love to perform in musicals. I am NOT a good dancer (I'm still stuck in the Dance Like a Dork days of Middle School), although I can learn a specific set of dance steps for a show.  Let's see, can I count Smart Alec and Excellent BS Detection as talents I inherited from my Dad?  (He and I are very much alike in that respect)
It is interesting to me how we are all like our parents in so many ways.  Yet, in other ways we are not like them at all.  Just think how boring this world would be if the only talents and traits we had were the exact same ones our parents had with nothing new or different added.  Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to be individuals!