This essay is filled with wise guidance as we learn how to make use of our gifts. You touch on a huge issue for me that I have been doing better with in recent years: using my abilities for the good of all rather than for building up my ego and making up for my sense of lack. Your example of patient willingness to go wherever your intuition leads you is so valuable because it is very easy to come to premature decisions about vocation by listening to the wounded ego.