Guest Author 2 Minute Read by Laura L. Smith 75% of the United States wears either contacts or glasses, including me. Most of us struggle to see the world we live in more clearly, sharper, brighter. I had an eye check up last week — you know the kind where they dilate your pupils with drops and everything is blurry…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read by an anonymous author He left on a snowy morning in mid-February. I had never before seen my father cry, but the day he left my mother and moved out of the house, red-rimmed were those blue eyes he had passed on to me. I was seventeen when the perfect world I thought I lived…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read by Alia Joy “Easily offended? What! I’m not easily offended,” she gasped as she read her results. Her brows were knit together and her face had deepened into a crimson flush as she read through the list of weaknesses commonly associated with her personality type. We sat there watching her whilst trying not to point…
Guest Author 5 Minute Read Extraversion and Introversion; there are many misconceptions tied to this one letter in Jung’s first pair of psychological preferences in the Myers Briggs. The most popular being: extroverts are outgoing and introverts are shy. And while I must acknowledge the correlation between extroverts and the socially confident individual, I feel like there’s a lot more to it.
Guest Author 5 Minute Read by Sarah Rose Lochelt “What’s your profile type? ESFJ? Oh, that’s totally you!” As a lover of all things personality-typed, I greatly enjoy the interpretations that come with sharing any of these with people. I’m an ESFJ. Here’s a little about what this means for me: Extroversion – outward-focused people who gain energy and refreshment from…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read The fact that I’m an introvert isn’t something that took me by surprise. I’ve always had tell-tale characteristics, like being an avid reader, having an active imagination and thought life, and preferring a small friend group. But for many people, the discovery that they are introverted is a surprise. Luckily, this surprise can help make sense of seeming anomalies in life.
Introversion can help connect the dots.
Guest Author 5 Minute Read As an only child, a diligent student, and now a single 20-something, solitude has never been very difficult for me, and I could easily rattle off a list of ways introverted behaviors—silent meditation, journaling, solitary prayer—contribute to a rich spiritual life. As a teenager, I would have been very happy to spend every Sunday worshipping on my own beneath a tree. Only as I matured as a Christian did I begin to understand that whatever virtues we introverts might possess, these virtues are most fit for kingdom work when sharpened against the very real strength of extroverts.
Guest Author 4 Minute Read Despite living in the same family, we all grow up in totally different environments — a.k.a our birth orders.
At first, birth order might not seem like it makes a huge difference in our personality, but think of where you land in the family unit.
Are you firstborn? Middle? Lastborn? Only?
How did you react to situations based on having older or younger siblings, or none at all?
Guest Author 4 Minute Read My husband, Jon, and I have been married for four years.
We’ve spent over two of those years in counseling. We have what we lovingly refer to as a high maintenance marriage. We didn’t really have the honeymoon period that people talk about. We got married and hit the ground running. Two very different, very strong-willed people, thrust into a brand new situation with a lot of baggage. It’s a recipe for disaster, really.
Guest Author 5 Minute Read As I look at my husband and two kids, I can see unique personality traits, passions, and spiritual gifts that God has placed within them. Sometimes it’s all too easy to fixate on the ways they are different from me. But in 1 Corinthians 12, Paul points out that God has purposefully made each of us unique. He never intended us to all be the same.
Guest Author 3 Minute Read by Teri Lynne Underwood It seems every few years Christendom goes abuzz with spiritual gift inventories and tests we can take to determine where we fit into the Body. I’m not opposed to knowing your spiritual gifts. In fact, I think it can be incredibly helpful to understand where your giftedness lies and how you can…
Guest Author 4 Minute Read For years, I buried my gift. Like the man in Matthew 25, I took what God had given me and hid it out of fear. Admitting this feels a bit shameful, because I have seen the fruit of spending the gift in Jesus’ name. I’ve gathered up words and prayed and shipped them out into the world expectant and hopeful that God can, and would use them as He found worthy so to do. But it wasn’t always this way.
The End.
The End.