The Bible tells us that we have to stir up the gift that is within us. There is more to the scripture but the point I want to talk about is the stir up, the gift, and the fact that it is in us. Each day is a gift. We can start there. Each breath is a gift, because we cannot take credit for breathing. If we keep going we can get into the external things like hope, a job, a skill, a passion. Are you just existing? The gift is just you existing? We have all had that aha moment when we had it figured out. The emotions within us were stirred and the excitement of something new, fresh got us stirred. However, the monotony of daily life, the disappointment of challenges seemed to put out that fire. We all have something in us, an unfulfilled purpose. If we allow it to it will remain just that, unfulfilled. 

The process of welding is ignited in a violent manner if you look at it in slow motion with a lot of technology. An electrode with electricity coursing through it is quiet on its own. Only when it makes contact with a grounded work piece does the violent introduction begin. Once that initial force is spent and the flow evens out you get a steady flow of production.

Many of us need a spark, we need to be stirred. When we do there is no limit to what God has in store for us, and through us. It may be a disturbing introduction to the process at the beginning as that almost uncontrollable force comes out in a mess. But once it gets through that initial cycle you will control it, and not only will it be the gift that was in you all along, it will be a gift to others, and possibly a spark that brings someone else out of mere existence.