Boldly Take (and Enjoy) Your Gifts
"…Inanna replied "I take them"
Fourteen times Enki raised his cup to Inanna.
Fourteen times he offered his daughtr five me, six me, seven me.
Fourteen times Inanna accepted the holy me"
I devoured the delicious story Inanna a few months ago and it continues to play itself in my mind. The tale Innana, for those unfamiliar (I was until recently) is a Sumerian myth. Inanna is the Sumer deity (she was known as Ishtar to Semites). Her grandfather, Enki, is the God of Wisdom.
One thing that I keep coming back to the last days is how Inanna receives the gifts she is offered, unasked, by Enki.
She doesn’t say "but I am not worthy", she doesn’t question them, and she doesn’t compare herself/her relative worth to others in the process….she simply accepts them with a bold line, repeated,
"I take them".
How many of us have received gifts - internal and/or external - that we fail to acknowledge or accept, repeatedly question, or even, refuse?
I am wondering if the lesson from this part of the tale is simply - Take your gifts, boldly and without shame! And enjoy them!
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June 22nd, 2006 at 12:51 am
As a slightly related and amusing aside, you also never know when your gifts will come in handy / are needed much further down the track! The most recently this happened was last week when I found myself using a talent for bubble lettering (discovered at age 10) was suddenly very relevent - I was co-facilitating a large meeting and was creating a visual document to capture what was being said / going on!
June 24th, 2007 at 2:48 am
to this I link the story of “the golden lamb” told to my by Chris at Emerson - “do not despair in that which you do not have…be joyful for the gifts you do have”…