Do I have any special talents?
There are many talents I WISH I had but they were not in God’s plan for my life. I enjoy what few talents HE gave me.
I guess my favorite pass times are writing, cooking & sewing. These may or may not be classified as talents but that is how I spend my time. IF I do have a real talent, it is reaching out to shut-ins & others who might be ill. I LOVE people & spending time with them. My all time favorite thing to do is be with my family. I like spending time with my immediate family. There are 30 who have descended from my husband & me. Those are my best times.
I like to write. For many years, I wrote poetry all the free time I could squeeze into my busy life as wife, mother, and employee. If a friend was having a birthday, a relative or friend died, just about life, I would write a poem. There is a chapter in “Let Me Tell You About My Grandpa” of poetry. This book was published a long time ago. It took ten years to compile and included stories told me by my daddy, grandpa, cousins and other relatives, poetry, pictures and genealogy. Currently, the second book is underway and will include mostly genealogy with notes about some relatives. It may be longer and will include pictures along with the aforementioned. It has been my privilege to write a few poems for the church when asked.
When I sew which I do frequently, it is now a days mostly craft sewing, mending, alterations. I make many things. It only 72 years for me to finish the first quilt I ever started. I began it when I was ten and finished it when I was 82. I sew tops on dish towels to hand on the oven or refrigerator door or cabined pull, make shoe bags for travel, embroidery baby diapers for burp pads, baby blankets and finish quilt panels. For my grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great nieces and nephews I made hand embroidered quilts or pieced quilts. One year, I made hand embroidery Christmas tree skirts for some family members. I enjoyed sewing dresses for my granddaughters and great granddaughters and flannel shirts for the grandsons, pajama pants for some of the boys. Recently, I made myself some handkerchiefs. I have made napkins and table clothes.
I like making bunt cakes, so much so that I bought bunt pans past having room for storage. This past Christmas, I shared by giving each granddaughter a bunt pan or fancy pie plate (which I also bought past having storage). Yes, when I bake a pie, it goes in a pretty pie plate. I bake Bunt, sheet, and occasionally a stacked cake. Known at church as the Banana Bread lady, I was baking banana bread for my 99 year old friend and would bake several loaves at one time. The extra was shared with other shut-ins from my church. She passed away recently but I will try to continue baking for the others. I like baking fruit pies, fruit dumplings, and crisps as well as custard and nut pies. Banana pudding is about my only pudding.
I ‘make a joyful noise’ in our church choir. My voice does not compare with the talents in that group. Great voices that could have been professional singer are included so my old voice doesn’t do much. I mainly take up space but what fun to shout out to the Lord with them. Our choir director is excellent. Whether we have six singers or a whole group of 12 or 14, the choir ALWAYS sounds great. Just wish I was able to sing as well as the rest.
The library at church is one of my best-liked things I have done. The library had lost its ‘keeper’ and since I have long ago retired, I volunteered to try to keep it. There have been so many donations of books that our little room is overflowing. Many of our church and even community folks have donated book cases for our use. Having worked as library assistant years ago, and as an organizational file clerk for many years, it has been an enjoyable task for me to get the library back in shape. It became an ever increasing pass time for me to add to and work in for a few years now. It can be done at my convenience and sometimes since Covid19, at times, it has backed up so that it may take a few hours to ‘catch up’. It is a fun task.
I have helped other church ladies in providing food for funerals at church. More recently, I have helped to organize the food. We have wonderful ladies who worship there and every one of them is a great cook. Sometimes, we have more than one funeral in close time frame. It is almost unbelievable that there are so many asking what can I bring and what time do you need it, can I help in the kitchen? This is such an honor for me to be allowed to help with this for the loved ones who are grieving.
It is an honor to do whatever I can to give honor and glory to our Father.
In jest but true is – my BEST ‘talent’ – I am clumsy and can make a mess at ANYTHING. Sometimes when I open snack bags, it explodes and the snack will fly everywhere. I can even open a bag of ice and spill at least 1/3 of it trying to pour it in a pan. Anything liquid is easily spilt. Cake pans can be over filled to run over in the stove as the rise.
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