You are the gift.
You: your soul created and sustained by the spirit of God and manifested through your body – your smile, your glance, your touch, your voice. Your mind and all the innate gifts God endowed you with, these constitute the gift that is you.
I cannot be prideful or ashamed of any of these things because they were given. And, in as much as they were given, so I ought to spend the gift of myself and all my talents in the service of God for others.
Knowing that the innate good I possess is not my own doing is at once a relief and an overwhelming responsibility. Relief, because I do not have to worry about taking credit or being embarrassed for having such wealth. Overwhelming, because I must do something with myself, multiplying the gifts I possess as a way of giving thanks to God.
And yet, when all is said and done, I am nothing – a zero. The only thing I can lay claim to is accepting God’s generosity and cooperating with his will for my life. But even that I wouldn’t be able to do without the help of his grace.