Name Your Gifts
For the next five minutes, write about what gave you joy as a child. Write quickly without analyzing or editing.
Take another five minutes and describe the most glorious or satisfying event of your high school life.
Try to remember the last time you were involved with a project that so captivated your attention that you lost track of time. What were you doing?
If five people closest to you-whether friends or family-were to tell you honestly what good things you have brought to their lives, what qualities or gifts would they list?
– from “The Soul Tells a Story: Engaging Creativity with Spirituality in the Writing Life” by Vinita Hampton Wright Loyola Press
