Using your Gifts [Part 1]

<p><em>You&&num;8217&semi;re home when you hear a knock on your door<&sol;em>&period; You call out&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Who is it&quest;&&num;8221&semi; but there&&num;8217&semi;s no answer&period; So&comma; you peek out of your door but no one is there&period; To investigate further&comma; you open the door and spot a box lying on your doorstep but there&&num;8217&semi;s no delivery truck in sight&period; Picking the box up and holding it to your ear&comma; you shake it lightly to gain a sense of what may be inside&period; The sounds are solid thumps against the inside of the box&semi; What could it be&quest; You open it and inside there it is&period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;queentoqueens&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;stock-footage-woman-laughing-while-opening-a-gift-box-against-white-background&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-264" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;queentoqueens&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;stock-footage-woman-laughing-while-opening-a-gift-box-against-white-background&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;300" alt&equals;"stock-footage-woman-laughing-while-opening-a-gift-box-against-white-background" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;2 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;10px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Something you&&num;8217&semi;ve been waiting for&period;&period;<em>&period;your gift&period; <&sol;em>When we observe people we draw conclusions about certain things concerning them&period; When we read Maya Angelou&&num;8217&semi;s poems we knew she had a way with words&period; When we saw Martin Luther King Jr&period; speak we knew he had a way of touching you from within to cause you to feel as though everything would be alright one day&period; Even with people we encounter daily&comma; some can create in us a positive energy just with their presence and some people are great with giving advice&period; Everyone is different&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s only right that our gifts be tailor-made to suit us individually&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I say this to say&comma; there are times when we see other people and ask&comma; &&num;8220&semi;why can&&num;8217&semi;t I speak as well as her&quest;&&num;8221&semi; or &&num;8220&semi;why is it that people don&&num;8217&semi;t flock to me like they do him&quest;&&num;8221&semi;&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s almost impossible as humans to avoid comparing ourselves to other people&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s life&period; But there are things you can do to work on this&&num;8230&semi; We&&num;8217&semi;ll discuss that next time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Your gift is your mark on the world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>From Me to You&comma; Love&period;&NewLine;