Wellness Series
Health is being engaged in projects
that are meaningful to you and reflect your most important inner values1.
In his book, The Power of Significance, #1 New York Times bestselling author,
John C. Maxwell, motivates his readers to “start with your one thing that you
can do better than anything else.”2
It is not what you do better than anyone
else. It’s the talent God put inside you
to take it and use it in extraordinary ways that will change the lives of
others for the better, and in the process, change your own life unto wellness,
too. My grandmother was a woman of many
talents, but her most special one to me was her creativity in taking ordinary
yarn and crocheting and knitting the extraordinary: everything a body could
wear from hat to house slippers and coats and skirts, full dresses and
scarfs. And she could cover beds with
brilliant intricately stitched blankets and pillow covers.
When she taught me how to crochet, I
was thrilled! I loved it! But later on, I realized that I couldn’t do
it like her. However, when it comes to
teaching, I can do it is as intricately and elaborately as Nana’s knitting
because that’s my “one thing”.
What is your
one thing? Matthew
25:14-30 describes how God gives us talent(s) and what He expects us to do with
His precious gift. Once you decide to
work with it, you realize that, with practice and consistency, you become
excellent at it.
Some of us may be endowed with
sensational singing; others may be full of analytical and statistical
acumen. Whatever you find that you can
do, strengthen it (in Biblical sense—trade it) either through taking a course
(going to school), an apprenticeship, or grab a mentor to understudy. Do what you can to make your talent better,
and you’ll feel like a brand new person as you fulfill your purpose.
When you focus on doing that one thing that
is meaningful to you and that reflects your most important inner values, that’s
when you find rest. That’s when you can enjoy
feeling good about expressing who you really are and showing what you can do or
make to bring a smile to others. Doing that one thing pushes you to that point
which gives peace to the soul; and then health for the body follows.
Then he who had received the
five talents went and traded with them and made another five talents. And, likewise, he who had received two gained
two more also. But he who had received one went and dug in the ground and hid
his Lord’s money [talent] (Matthew
25:16-18).
You feel good when you do your one
thing and expand it in ways that positively affects others. You begin to see them also feeling good about
you sharing your gift(s). That’s what “trading”
is all about: giving yourself in exchange for that smile of gratitude from
someone who needed your service or that product you made.
For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:21).
Does it not follow that if you bury
your one talent, your one thing, God cannot move in your life to give you what
you truly desire? Just think about
it. Could it be that health problems
mostly come due to stress over lack of money?
What would happen if we proclaim freedom from financial bondage by
taking a step to do that one thing? Will
not God meet us and double our
earnings?
Your values are the core set of
beliefs you have about God, people and yourself. They
are your treasure (what you cherish most). When
your values align with God’s will, wow!
There shall be showers of blessings including wellness in every aspect
of your life: in your family life, in your ministry or business life, in your
financial life, and in your body unto your eternal life. Amen.
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1. Travis, J. (1977). The Wellness Workbook. Mill Valley, CA, USA: Wellness Resource
Center.
2. Maxwell, J.C. (2017). The Power of Significance. New York, NY, USA: Center Street
Hachette Book Group, 55.
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