All of us have passions, skills, giftings–things we bring to the world. However, sometime it can seem like others’ gifts overshadow our own or that we are incapable of using ours in a practical way. Thankfully, that’s not the case! It can be hard to learn how to use what we’ve been given, but just like we needed to learn how to walk and talk, we need to learn how to use our unique talents.
In the environmental world we have a term, the niche, which describes the specific spot in the ecological web that an organism resides within. This is the spot on the web (think about the food chain) where the organism has “hit its stride”, so to speak–it it the specific environmental condition where the organism thrives. This includes the exterior environment, temperature, humidity, etc., as well as the food sources and the other organisms this specific one will be interacting with. This is a great way to think about our giftings.