Using Your Gifting to Create Healing

One of the greatest things that God did when He created us, is that He gave us the ability to be creative like Him. Creativity comes in all forms. However, many people find it challenging to figure out how they are creative. It’s as though that part of our nature was not introduced to us. In reality, many of the things that we’ve done or were introduced to as children, follow us into our adult lives. Sometimes, it’s just a matter of tapping back into that child-like nature from our youth and rediscovering and dusting off those things to find ways that we can now create healing for others.

I think the challenge for many people is that they often don’t give themselves enough credit for the amount of creativity that they possess. Others, lack the vision and sometimes the understanding of how their creativity actually produces healing for others. It’s easy to look at people who dance or produce music and see how those gifts captivate hearts and soothe minds. Dance has been shown not only helpful for bringing physical restoration but helps with depression, PTSD, anxiety, Parkinson’s Disease, and also recovery from domestic violence. Music has been studied for its ability to calm, reduce stress, improve communication skills, express feelings, and more.

Gifts like music and dance are among those obvious things that you can practically use to produce healing for others. However, there are some people who are gifted at things like cooking. Some people limit their concept of cooking to the opening of a restaurant or a bakery. However, there are some people who are so gifted in cooking that they know how to create meals that provide nutrition and maintain health when people have dietary issues like Celiac Disease or Crohn’s Disease.

Healing doesn’t have to be physical only when it comes to the gift of cooking. Healing can take place in other ways. I recall a news story a couple of years ago where a guy opened up his restaurant as a way to provide employment opportunities to ex-cons. He wasn’t satisfied to see them gain skills but abilities that would equip them to support themselves in the new life outside the prison doors they had exited.

Here you see that the key for this one man was to find the gift in himself and how to translate that gift into something that transforms others. How many other gifts are there that exist which can be taken to transform others? It’s a matter of taking your compassion for others and allowing what is your passion to converge with it and create the healing that is needed.

There are some people who have such a gift for interior design that it doesn’t just create a space for the sake of beauty alone. Some have a way of creating space that provides comfort and safety. Interior design in this aspect is such an amazing ability when you consider people who may have escaped from domestic violence, sex or human trafficking, drug or another addiction recovery. People need to have a sense of safety and sanctuary. It’s normal for most people to feel this way when comfort and safety are all they’ve ever known. However, a person who has spent months and years in the most traumatic events imaginable, might not know how because of the amount of trauma they’ve been through.

Perhaps you’re a writer. You have the ability to create stories that spark the imagination. Maybe you are able to teach others how to use their own writings as a means of processing the trauma that they have experienced, or maybe it is a way for them to build their own self-esteem. Bringing healing is the goal and using every gift that God has given you is the means and method of delivery. God has blessed each and every person uniquely to be a culture healer. How you accomplish that all depends on how you see and hear God.