“Pace.”

E,

Your enthusiasm for learning has always been your great gift. Yet, a gift is barely half the story. There are things that always rise above the gift. A gift is wasted on a restless soul. Well, perhaps that is harsh. Nothing is truly wasted on anything. It is not ideal to have a gift and nothing else. It simply does not work. You will have to pace yourself. You will have to learn to be patient with your own soul.

 

The gift is a thing you will shape and move and refine and make better as you learn to use it for some higher purpose. A higher purpose is anything bigger than your own advancement. It is in you to share. That giving is the great fruit of the spirit. The idea that character is formed in not just what you give but how you give. Our lives are these transient things that find shape and form in eternal ideals. Giving is the ultimate one. It gives pace to the great need for pointless speed. It is the ground we plant it and the fruit we reap.