“What you do with your time and talent is critically important. Pay attention.” - from Touchstones: Stories for Living The Twelve Gifts

I was sitting next to my mom’s hospital bed when I heard these exact words: “What you do with your time and talent is critically important. Pay attention.” I didn’t hear these words with my ears. I somehow “heard” them inside my body. When I did, I understood two things.

First, I knew that “someday” had arrived. For me. It was time for me to act. For 10 years I had been yearning to publish the book I had written for my daughters. And for 10 years, I had been saying “Someday. Someday.”

The second thing I felt when I heard these words was that this is true for all of us. What we each do with the time and talent we’ve been given is critically important. Please pay attention.

Have you been saying “Someday” about a dream you hold? About anything?

Before I describe more about the profound circumstance in which I heard this message and what I did, I’d like to encourage you to think about this message for yourself.

If you heard the words: “What you do with your time and talent is critically important. Pay attention,” what would this mean to you? How would you feel? What might you do?

With love,
Charlene