Ever since my daughter was 5 or 6, I've told her that to be talented at ANYTHING you must either have been blessed with natural ability by God, or work hard to develop areas in which you were not particulary graced - BUT that to be EXCELLENT at any skill - you needed to have both. God indeed gaces us with natural ability, but I believe that part of our worship is honoring him with the sacrifice of dedication and devotion to making it (and all of ourselves) the best that they can be.