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Q: Recently, I was asked repeatedly by my mother to sing for a relative’s birthday party. I rejected her time and time again. Even her cousins came to ask me to sing, but I declined. My mom said she felt hurt and embarrassed, especially since she knew I could sing well, and I ruined her reputation as I was displaying a proud attitude. My sincere intention was just to not steal the glory from God as I didn’t want people to praise me, and I wanted to be humble. Did I do anything wrong? When I consulted God, he inspired me to resign myself to his will, but I’m not sure how to. Please help me. \u2013 A.L.<\/p>\n

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Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/em><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0Since I don\u2019t know all the details of the situation and of your family, I\u2019ll try to keep the advice general.<\/p>\n

First, the ability to sing well is a gift. And like many gifts, it is meant to be shared for the benefit of others. It is also a means by which we can give glory to God.<\/p>\n

So, ideally you should see your gift as something to be used for the good of others. Your singing in this case could have helped to enhance a family event.<\/p>\n

There is nothing wrong if people compliment you for a talent. In that case you could thank the person and point out that the credit is due to God, who gave you the gift.<\/p>\n

In the future you might want to be more open to using your gift. Remember the fate of the servant in the parable<\/a> who buried his talent and left it unused.<\/p>\n

On a positive note, recall Jesus\u2019 exhortation, \u201cYour light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father” (Matthew 5:16).<\/p>\n

Sure, our talents can tempt us to pride, which is why we constantly need to work on humility.<\/p>\n

Humility, however, doesn\u2019t mean hiding gifts, but rather using them and giving thanks to the Giver.<\/p>\n

I hope some of this helps.<\/p>\n

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His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145448"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=145448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}