What Can You Not, Not Do? Do It!

She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.  (Proverbs 31:24-25)

 

            I have some friends who are not just crafty, they're talented. They can cook, sew, quilt, host, crochet, sketch, paint, or any of a number of other things well. Some of them have sold things they've made. Others give them as gifts. I have other friends with job related education and skills that can provide them with an income. Me? I'm working on my writing skills, apprenticing to a best-selling author. My goal is to reach the point where my writing and blogging will allow me to sell my words, so that I can be clothed with strength and dignity and can laugh at the days to come.

          Years ago, I figured out that a person's mission involved doing what that person was designed to do. I sometimes explain it as doing what you can't not do. If you can find a way to make what you can't not do, or what you enjoy doing into a way to make money, you receive a double blessing. That doesn't mean it won't feel like it's going to kill you sometimes. It might mean that you just get to enjoy that dying a little more than if you were doing something you hated and felt that way.

            So, what do you love to do? What can you not, not do? Can you build your skills in your spare time? It takes 2000 hours to become an expert. Is there a way to use those skills to benefit others - for pay if possible, but even as a ministry? Can you imagine how you'll feel doing good by doing something you've learned to do well, and enjoy?