E,

Your enthusiasm for
learning has always been your great gift. Yet, a gift is barely half the story.
There are things that always rise above the gift. A gift is wasted on a
restless soul. Well, perhaps that is harsh. Nothing is truly wasted on
anything. It is not ideal to have a gift and nothing else. It simply does not
work. You will have to pace yourself. You will have to learn to be patient with
your own soul.

 

The gift is a thing you
will shape and move and refine and make better as you learn to use it for
some higher purpose. A higher purpose is anything bigger than your own
advancement. It is in you to share. That giving is the great fruit of the
spirit. The idea that character is formed in not just what you give but how you
give. Our lives are these transient things that find shape and form in eternal
ideals. Giving is the ultimate one. It gives pace to the great need for
pointless speed. It is the ground we plant it and the fruit we reap.