Devo Monday//Talent

 

This weeks devotional is inspired by the amazing people I met at Aladdin! So talented, and only high schoolers :)
 The verse says "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace." We all have gifts from God, because we were made in His image. This verse is pretty straight forward about it too.
 Use your talents, whether it be dancing, singing, writing, doing hair, playing football or anything else, use them to show the grace of the Lord in your life. 
Also, doing something you love, to serve Jesus makes that activity so much more fun! Just doing something with the intent to serve brings a ton of joy.
 Have a happy memorial day!

Disney's Into the Woods!

                     Today I saw Into the Woods! If you haven't noticed, I'm very into musicals, so I loved this! 

Into the Woods is a musical where fairy tales are mixed together, much like The Woodcutter, by Kate Danley, a very good book. 

In it are the Baker and his Wife, Little Red Riding Hood (plus her grannie and the wolf), Cinderella (with step-family and prince), Rapunzel, Jack and the beanstalk.

The basic plot is that the Baker and his Wife have been cursed by the witch to never have children, and the only way they can is by getting her 4 objects, a cloak as red as blood, a shoe of gold, hair as yellow as corn and a cow as white a milk to make a potion. They have to go into the woods to find the objects! And that is where they meet everyone else, but the plot thickens and the kingdom goes crazy! I'll leave it to you to see the rest. I thoroughly enjoyed it, however I'd much rather see it performed live because it was just so long!!! The singing, in my opinion was brilliant, but some of the lines were unnecessary. But I suppose since i was originally a musical, you can't really blame it. If I had seen the musical first, I'd definitely have a stronger opinion. Maybe when I get to see it live I'll review it again!

Q: Do you like musicals at all? Any favorites?

A: Yes!!!! Hairspray is my current favorite, and just barely above Newsies

PIXIE HOLLOW PLEASE

This morning at church, the pastor was talking about Ephesians 2 (which is really good, thanks Paul!) and how as Christians we are God's temple, now that he adopted us into his family. That led me to start thinking about how we glorify God with our bodies (temples), which took me to pondering natural talents!
I wish mine was easy to find, like a fairy in Disney's Tinkerbell movies, where you just go through some sort of choosing process

Some people's natural talents are easy to spot but for a lot of people, like me, I have no idea! Which is unfortunate because I'd really like to be good at something. Something like:

• Leadership
• Public speaking
• Dance 
• Singing
• Instruments
• Calligraphy
• Hospitality
• Writing
• Organization
• Mentoring/Relationships
• Acting
• Learning languages

Fear not, you are a talented person who was made in God's image! If you have or haven't found yours, continue searching and doing what you are passionate about.
So, what are you amazing at? comment please :D thank you for your time! and what should i write about next?