Speaking than troubleshooting

Speaking during the debut

If there's an opportunity to speak in any form, I will do it. God gave me a breakthrough this year. In May, I was given to share my stories as a Filipino and Asian serving the Navy. This month, there are three opportunities to speak: hosting a church event and debut as well as the poetry recital.

I am happy to hear that people were entertained for the Thanksgiving program I prepared. With the usual phrase lines to catch their attention, I make sure I can connect with my audience. For God's glory!

After I hosted the Thanksgiving Dinner for our church, I was invited to host a debut of our senior chief's daughter who is an elder of our church. Though it's like an on-the-spot extemporaneousness talk, I am still prepared to share my spiels with the audience. I am also invited to host a wedding ceremony early next year. That one is another opportunity to bless people.

My church mate commented I seem to be confident in terms of speaking. That's a gift from God. That's a natural talent I want to do. As I explained in my previous blogs, both speaking and writing are talents I want to carry out to the world. Whatever career in the future that's available, I hope those two activities will be the driving course.

But I could say I am not naturally gifted to fix mechanical stuffs. Ironically, that's my rate as a machinist's mate. My day job is geared towards troubleshooting machines and standing watch on machinery equipment on-board USS Blue Ridge. My colleague noticed that I still struggle in terms of using machinery tools. There are still times when I miss to perform some steps for maintenance.

I don't want to take my rate for granted. For me, it's more of character building. I am a work-in progress. Though I know that I am not doing an excellent job with this rate, my spirit and drive for excellence will still continue.

Speaking, a tool for communicating, will always be part of my calling.