gifted

You may not recognize the hand of God acting through you if achieving comes naturally.

crying foul

When you criticize yourself you malign the One Who made you.

the good life

“But we urge you, beloved … to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we directed you, so that you may behave properly toward outsiders and be dependent on no one.” — 1 Thessalonians 4:10-12, NRSV