What do you feel about your abilities and the opportunities that present themselves in your life? Are the opportunities greater than your abilities or beneath them? What do you ask for when you’re looking for challenges in your life?
The Scroll Marked X covers this. “I ask not for gold or garments or even opportunities equal to my ability; instead, guide me so I may acquire ability equal to my opportunities.”
I don’t know about you, but I usually find opportunities that seem to exceed my abilities, so I if I know I’ll never be given more than I am able to accomplish, then, clearly, I’ll be able to acquire whatever ability I need. If my opportunities seem beneath my abilities? Maybe I don’t have a good grasp of what my abilities truly are.
The key, of course, is to approach each opportunity with our best capabilities, treating it as the most important thing at the time we’re tackling the tasks associated with it.