Lost talents and dreams.

I was reading in an inspirational book and this sentence challenged me, “ There is much food in the fallow ground of the poor.”
I thought about this as it really concerned that in this fallow ground or unused, untouched ground that there was still much food there, so why isn’t that ground being used?
I wondered if this related to our lives and some of the disappointments and setbacks we have faced?
Do we have fallow ground within our lives, areas that we have allowed to go untouched, unused?
I thought about talents that we have that we have not used for a long time and yet if we did use them they could be a blessing to us and to others.
Areas we have just let go.
Is there an area in your life that has become fallow ground?
If there is, there is still much food there for you.
Maybe you were painting in a certain experimental medium or just being very different and exciting and some critical person crushed you and your dreams and you stopped and let that ground get fallow and you are poorer for the loss?
Maybe the fear of what others may say or think of you if you go and do what your heart desires and this fear has made you lay it aside and it is your fallow ground and you are poorer for the loss?
Start again and plough that ground anew, walk against the critic and show them they were wrong.
Walk against the fear and use it to motivate yourself to believe in yourself again and not be concerned what others may say or think.
Plough that fallow ground and plant your dreams again, do the things you want to do and believe in yourself and live your dreams and work hard on them, there is much food in the fallow ground.
What are you willing to do now to make those lost talents and dreams become reality?