Folks, once again, it's confirmed. My MIND=crazy.
Most of my life, I have thought everyone struggles as much as me, figuring out how to handle situations. HOWEVER, this is incorrect.
My senior year of high school I did a spiritual gifts Bible Study (which I STRONGLY suggest). What did I find during this study you may ask??? Well I found my top three spiritual gifts ARE-
1) Exhorter- We like to call it the gift of gab, these are our Chatty Kathy's (or Kevin's) around us. Ones that can easily talk to anyone, and everyone is our friend unless proven otherwise, very forgiving, usually we have a decently big gray area.
2) Perceiver– These are the ones that "tell it like it is'. We feel the need to correct people when they are doing something wrong and lead them into the 'light'. For us it is BLACK AND WHITE. We tend to see into people and how genuine they are.
3) Compassion– This one we all know obviously, but little facts about this gift is, that we are very tender and usually don't feel the need to correct people but rather, be there for them and listen. We are the ones that CRY WHEN WE SEE OTHERS CRY. Another little fact is usually we have a hard time forgiving people who have hurt us because we don't understand how someone could do that to us.
NOW, remember these are MY top three. Does anyone else see like, ohhhhh a billion of contradictions between them. One is black and white, another has a big gray area, one is forgiving, the other is not, one wants to correct everyone the other does not… so on and so on.
RECOGNIZE MY DELIMA???
SO when I have a decision I need to make in my mind on how to handle something, I thus, go through every one of these stages. Now, I have since learned to channel certain gifts for certain situations, unlike my High School years where my Perceiver often got the best of me. (needless to say I burned some bridges).
Picture this….
COMBINE BOTH THOSE IMAGES AND CREATE A PICTURE IN YOUR HEAD
That is my mind when I am faced with something.
Now, I embrace it.
Next, look at this little Personality Test I had to do for World Race Profile…..
Is it just me or does this confirm everything yet again….. Minus the introvert or extrovert, but come on, it's me were talking about. Pretty much split in half on everything else.
Is this a curse or a blessing???
Someone tell me!!!???
