No. 79 Talent

Facillitator:
Date:

Group Session Plan from FUSN (developed by Noreen Kimball)

Opening Words
Talent sometimes implies extraordinary gifts in the “uncommon” person. For example, John F. Kennedy said, to the Nobel winners of 1962 gathered at his dinner table: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent . . . that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” Yet, does not everyone have natural gifts, whether visible or not, whether used or not? Or perhaps we have all developed some talent?

Check In

Topic
The word “talent” has carried the idea of “value” and “worth” for millennia. Only in recent centuries has it grown to mean a special, natural ability or aptitude. What are your talents and how have they challenged your spiritual being? In what ways have they nurtured and in what ways have they interfered with that being? On the other hand, your talents may complement your spiritual being? Or, simply be separate and distinct from it?

Check Out

Closing Words
A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world’s torrent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a “talent”, my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
Jean Paul Sartre