A Deacon Speaks

WEAKNESSES

It's good to know your strengths, and just as important and useful to know your weaknesses. When you're aware of your weaknesses, when you're willing to admit them and face them, you have just identified a powerful path for personal growth towards your destiny and success.

Take a look at yourself. What is holding you back? What is keeping you from living the life you want to live? What part of yourself, is constantly disappointing you?

Be honest with yourself. What are your greatest weaknesses? When you have pinpointed your weaknesses, you now know where to put your effort. For instance, if you are great with managing your money, but a lousy public speaker, wouldn't it pay you to put your effort into improving your speaking skills, rather than improving your money managing skills? We have a tendency to want to do the things we're good at. And, indeed, we must make full use of our gifts. But we also must grow. And that means identifying our weaknesses and working on them. When you look right at your greatest weaknesses, and decide to do something about them, suddenly it goes from a liability to an asset. Suddenly you have found a way to be highly effective, to make a major difference in your life and to the lives of others. Your weaknesses are great lessons waiting to be learned.

Prayer: Dear God, forgive me when I hold fast to my strengths, allow me to see and work with my weaknesses that keep me from truly fulfilling the success and destiny you have set for me. Help me to do what is right and good in sharing my talents with others. - Amen.