Weakness or Lack of Strength?

Gimli is a playful and intense dog. He loves to play with toys, wrestle, chase and be chased. Virginia is a little snuggle bunny. She doesn't really need to play. She enjoys curling up next to me and loves to be rubbed. However, when we play with Gimli, she all the sudden decides she needs to be a playful dog like him. I will be playing tug of war with a toy with Gimli, and she will grab another toy and just shake it to death and barks at nothing. She never does this unless Gimli is playing with us. She is trying to copy her brother and get our attention too. If I stop playing with Gimli and give her some attention, she immediately drops the toy and snuggles up to me. That's who she really is. The "playful" dog is just an act to fit in with the rest of us.

I want to be liked and to fit in with the people around me too. I constantly compare myself to others and find new ways I do not measure up every day. I am amazed by people who are great public speakers, math whizzes, great with finances, and have a good eye for fashion and home decor. Since I am not strong in any of those areas at all, I look at people with those strengths and can't help but notice that I am weak in those areas. I once heard a speaker say that we talk an awful lot about "strengths and weaknesses", but what we actually have is "strengths" and "a lack of other strengths". We don't look at a dog and say, "You're strong in running, but weak in flying." They were not created to fly. Just like birds were not created to swim. I do believe that we have areas of weakness related to sin that we need to work on and allow God to change. However, how often do I get frustrated with my "lack of strengths" and view that as a weakness to overcome or change? 

I have been praying recently that God would show me the ways He has gifted me, and what "good works" He has prepared for me to do in my life (Ephesians 2:10). I am also praying that God would give me the strength and faith to be okay with not being good at everything, to trust in the plans and He has for my life, and to not try to add to those plans tasks I think I should be doing that God hasn't called me to do. 

God created every being uniquely in the entire world. That absolutely amazes me! Getting to watch my 2 puppies live out their personalities has made this truth so real to me. They are not people, but God still created them uniquely and creatively. How much more uniquely and creatively He created me! I am praying that God would give me the courage and faith to do what He has created and called me to do that no one else can do. Now I've just got to figure out what that is!