Commentary on the Gospel of
Wasted Talents
“Which is the richest place on earth?” asked the Guru. The disciples named various cities on earth. The Guru dismissed all their answers and said, “The richest place on earth is the burial ground. There lie buried many rich talents and possibilities never realized.” How true! God sends every child with wonderful potentials; but how many of them are realized! They remain unrealized due to many reasons, not all of them are the fault of the individual, though. We fail to give our children faith in God-given talents; we label them inadequate on the basis of birth, class, gender, race, color, etc. Sometimes we force our unfulfilled dreams into them, ejecting out their own. I guess at the end of the day, we will be held responsible not only for not realizing the talents given to us, but also for not helping those around us to become who they were meant to be.
