INDIVIDUAL GIFTS, TALENTS, SKILLS
We each have different gifts. Certainly the New Testament teaches this principle. It isn’t important that we all have equal gifts or the same gifts. So also we each have different and individual skills, interests and talents. Parents need to realize this in the raising of their children. Just because a given child doesn’t do well in one subject doesn’t mean he’s going to fail in life. One man wrote of his boyhood struggles with math: “The figures were tied into all sorts of tangles and did things to one another which it was extremely difficult to forecast with complete accuracy. In some cases these figures got into debt with one another; you had to borrow one or carry one, and afterwards you had to pay back the one you had borrowed. These complications cast a steadily gathering shadow over my daily life. They took away from one all the interesting things one wanted to do in the nursery or…
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