Different Gifts

"If someone should ask why God made melons bigger than strawberries or lilies larger than violets, why the rosemary is not a rose or why the carnation is not a marigold, why the peacock is more beautiful than a bat, or why the fig is sweet and the lemon sour, we would laugh at his questions and tell him, 'Poor man, since the world's beauty requires variety, it is necessary that there should be different and unequal perfections among things and that one thing should not be another. This is why some things are small and others large, some bitter and others sweet, some more beautiful and others less so.' It is the same with supernatural things. 'Each one has his own gift, one in this way, and another in that,' says the Holy Spirit." - Saint Francis de Sales

Thank you for the gifts You have given me, Lord. Thank you for the many attributes, spiritual and natural, with which You have entrusted me. Please guide me and help me to use these gifts well - to praise You and to serve You and whoever You have entrusted to my care in any way. Thank you.