What are you really good at?

If you know me much, you know I'm unfortunately more apt to reply with "Well, I can tell you what I'm really bad at!" That's some bad and some good, it's a balance. Let me think this through...

I'm approaching my 31st year of life. I don't yet think that I know the answer to this question. If I look at my nearly 31 years historically, a few things come to mind that "people," typically think I'm good at. I don't typically share their belief, but if I think about those couple things that I hear "Oh, Melissa she's a really good *blah*"...those are things that I've invested a lot of time in, that I've logged several thousand hours working at because it's one of 2 things:

1. Something I like
2. Something that needs done

It doesn't take a lot of effort to log hours in for something I like, so it could be theorized that it's easy to get good at something I like. However, it takes some "grunt" to log hours on things that fall into the not so desirable category 2.

Something else I've learned...category 2 items, if given the opportunity, can merge into category 1 items. But, that has more to do with God than with me. He's changed my heart to move some "things that need done" into "things that I like" and even love. I'm talking things like talking to that Jr. Higher for the 27th time about their attitude, I've grown to be thankful for the opportunity to exhort our kids to living more like Christ, as opposed to thinking, man don't these kids listen to anything (when I should be asking myself the same thing). I know I'm serving God, dispite the fact that it's the 12 consecutive time she's sighed or rolled her eyes at me. (I would like to take this opportunity to publically apologize to anyone i EVER rolled my eyes at.)

However, I don't soon forsee things like washing sheets and cleaning toilets hoping up to category one. I'm human, it's not gonna happen, toilets are gross.

I forget though, it takes a lot of grunt, a lot of humility (which isn't particularly natural for me) and a lot of decreasing me and increase Him in order to see that transformation. And, unfortunately, if proper time is not given to the maintainence of said cateogorically transformed "things," they are quite easily merged back into cateogory 2.

I guess what I'm babbling about is that when I take a good look at the things in cateogory one and two, it's category two that could most glorify God. If, I allowed God to change my heart and was disciplined enough to put in the time. I'm here to show people Christ, not Melissa. Ya, I can glorify God in category 1, but His strength is perfected in our weakness, even the weaknesses of my strengths. I could never figure that out, "your strength is your weakness"...I still don't think I really do, but it's maybe not quite so foggy.

Thanks, to "The Great Pumpkin", for making me think about what people see/percieve when they think of/observe me.

I need to log more hours in cateogory 2.