A story of football, writing, baseball, cooking, blogging, and prayer

I haven't been doing my daily post lately. I know, you must be just devastated, what with losing my amazingly spiritual insight =) Anways, if you really did enjoy reading my blog everyday, I'm sorry, and if not... well, I guess you'll live too.
Today I cooked for the first time in my Family and Consumer Science class (just for the record, I only took the class because I wanted to take drafting the first semester, but I really didn't enjoy that either) and if you know me, you know that I do not cook. And that's being modest. I am horrible. I find it boring (especially baking; you can't change anything up) and it doesn't help that my teacher really kind of scares me.
(By the way, I am totally stealing this blog's...moral lesson...from someone else, k?)
I can try and try to be a better cook, and maybe one day I'll be decent. I will be a good, average chef. Or (stay with me here) I could put effort into something that I am naturally good at, like writing (if you think that I completely fail as a writer then let's just say I'm using a random example, okay?) and instead I become and extraordinary writer? Think about it. Okay I think this will be easier if I use someone else as an example. Let's say you can play football really well. I mean, you were born with a natural talent, and you love it. But you decide to explore baseball. And face it, you're not that good. You decide to put all of your effort into improving your baseball skills, and after a year or so you look at your progress. You are now good and football and good at baseball. Now rewind. Instead, you put effort into improving your football skills. Now you're great/extraordinary/have bragging rights/xness/amazing at football. You're one of the best there is, and because of that you don't even care that you're not good at baseball.
I completely stole this lesson from someone I've talked to recently. Hopefully they weren't planning on... well, I don't know. Hope it's okay that I'm posting this, but it just really made me think. Hey we were all given gifts for a reason; we need to use them.
Also, if you all could be praying, I would really appreciate it. I'm not going to go into anything, but hey God knows the needs.