Confessions of a Bad Guitarist...

It's time for a bit of honesty. When I first started learning the guitar I was actually hoping to be a bit of a prodigy. I know it sounds far fetched, but I thought, "Hey, why not? I'm musical! Piano, flute, saxaphone. And I'm no Susan Boyle, but I'm definitely above a Britney Spears in the shower karaoke department." This idea was furthered when I watched August Rush right after I learned that both of my biological parents were experienced guitarists. Fate, right? Ha ha wrong! Now with that said am I going to give it up? Nah, I love it.

And since we're on the subject, I'm also lousy at chemistry and volleyball. But ya know, that's okay. I have things I'm not good at . You have things you're not good at. But that's why we were created to live in fellowship. We balance each other out! And when it comes to talents, it's not how many you are given, but rather how you use what you are given.

I think this idea as a whole is lost on America. We claim individualism yet we strive to be "well rounded." Now, there is nothing wrong with wanting to try new things, but I think it has too much emphasis to be the best at everything. I mean the IV League schools all want it. it's not enough to just be brainy. Here's my stand on well-roundedness, If I am exactly the same as Susie Q and the 6 billion other people that live on this earth when it comes to talents, then why have them at all? Aren't I just more of a robot.

So, the question remains, even if I have the same exact talents as another person, what sets me apart? This my friends is where the world falls flat, and where Christianity THRIVES. What makes me different? How I use them to serve. Where I'm called. Because the whole point of being talented was never about you anyway. And the really cool thing about God is, even if you absolutely suck at something, you can still be used. Even if its only as a source of entertainment for others. No two masterpieces are ever exactly the same.

So here's to bad volleys and horrible chord strumming. To the talents you don't have, and the ones you do. Present or not, they're all useful.

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. (Matthew 25:14-29)