About Mathew 25:14-30

Another interesting post from the old bgg thread which I would like to share here:

About Mathew 14-30 is a very important parable for me. I was teached that parabole when I was just a child and somehow it stuck to me. At that time I was a brilliant child (I was a geek, as most of you here, lots of 10 on the exams and the like) and I suppose it was telling me to use my talents, my bran/intelligence to bring happines to the world, so I decided to made myself a scientist. I did that (By the way Im doctor in Molecular biology, which helped me a lot to understand me and why I was the way I am) but ultimately I changed my career to high school math teacher in order to have more time to dedicate to my family/kids. But Im disgressing a bit here, sorry.

The important part was that at some point in my life I was looking for a change in my life. I feel I was finally ready to go out of the closet, but I needed to know what God expected of me, as for me the spiritual side is a very important part of me. For a significant part of my life I thought I should try to fight my transgerism as a temptation, as it were a personal test God have made upon me. So I started reading the bible in look for an answer and suddenly it came in that parabole. My transgederism was not a temptation, but a talent that God gave me, and I shouldnt have hidden it. My real talent to the world was not my intelligence but my transgenderism (well in fact all my talents are important, but you get the point). We LGBT people must not hide our talents/traits, because they came from God, and he gave us to use it, and to live the live we were intended to live, and not to live inside a closet. In a very important sense Im now woman thanks to God, because faith was the only that prevent me to suicide myself in my darkest hours, as lots of other trans people have done. It was not a easy journey, but with their help I made it, and finally was brave enough to show all my talents to the world, and then I only want to tell other people who maybe in other steps of their journey to dont despair, as God love us all, and to believe that another life is possible. A life where you could be who ever you wnated to be, who you were born to be. I was born to be a trans woman with 3 kids, who teach other teenagers and give them example on how to be a trans person with a completely average/boring life, like I always wanted and that try to build bridges with other LGBT people and christian/jew people to show them that indeed you can be LGBT and be under God´s grace and to preach God´s word. That is literally the life I always desired for me (family, religion, being myself) but I never thought it was possible to achieve. I feared of being forced in prostitution. I feared of not being able to have my own kids. I feared of being seen as a sinner/bad/weird person by my community. I feared to only be able to have a normal life as long I keeped myself inside the closet. I feared to dont follow the path God have chosen for me. So as you can see I feared a lot, and I think I have reasons to. And however, somehow I end with 3 kids, a good job and reputation on my community, and all while being me, a trans woman. So everything I have always dreamed and fighted for it was made possible. And I know the truth behind it. God have been always after me, helping me step by step, because without celestial help it would be impossible to achieve all I managed to achieve. And in return I can only do things like this thread, to give testimony, spread his word and help others in a similar situation as mine. To use my talent.

Mathew 25:14-30

14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.5 You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.