The Parable of the Talents

So what is the lesson of this story? First, it teachers us how and where to use our talents. The question is, is it for our own good alone? It is for our own advantage only? Or we use them for a greater good or purpose to fulfil what the Lord has intended for these gifts. Second, it also invites us to think and to reflect how do I see God, how do I feel about God. Do I see God as unfair, demanding, strict, controlling, so that I do not like His intentions.

Listen to the reflection of Father Francis on 19. November 2023 , the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time on the Gospel of Matthew 25:14-30

“It is not what the artist does that counts. But what he is. Cézanne would never have interested me if he had lived and thought like Jaques-Emile Blanche, even if the apple he had painted had been ten times more beautiful. What interests us is the anxiety of Cézanne, the teaching of Cézanne, the anguish of Van Gogh, in short the inner drama of the man. The rest is false.”

Pablo Picasso

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1794279-pablo-picasso-it-is-not-what-the-artist-does-that-counts-but-wh/