myers briggs.

Extroverted. 

iNtuitive.

Feeling.

Perceptive.

Myers Briggs is a personality type "test" that i have recently come to love.  I have always enjoyed learning about personalities and how people are created differently.  In high school I took a test called the Enneagram which i loved but it seemed to almost magnify my distaste for certain personality types.  This resulted in simply an effort to avoid these "types" of people.  (By the way, I'm a 2)

Call it maturity maybe.. but being turned to myers briggs in more recent months, my eyes have been opened.  The point of the test is to learn more about yourself and your natural tendencies, yes, but more significantly, it is to learn more about others.  To see and understand why people are the way they are.. and to appreciate our differences.  To love people for who they are.. where they are.

I discovered that according to "myers briggs"  I am an ENFP..

(Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency)

I found this to be very accurate in describing my personality (although i am an introverted extrovert.. a cross between the two)

And as I said earlier the types of personalities I would try and avoid might have been the Sensing Thinking Judging type.. Ones who analyze situations logically.. making decisions without emotion, etc..

But talking to Jesus about it.. I felt him whisper over me..

caroline.. I am all encompassing.  I am everything.  I am both a thinker and a feeler.  Both sensing and intuitive.  Both judging and perceiving.  Both introverted and extroverted.. and I want you to be more like me.  Appreciate these differences.  Love these differences.  Learn from them.  Learn from them so you may become more like me.  This is sanctification my love.  And this is my desire for you..

Awe-struck.  

It all makes sense.  We are to be centered.  Not completely wayward one way or another.  

I can not describe to you the amount of appreciation I then received for my "thinking" friends, to which before this I, at times, wanted to strangle out of frustration for our differences.

Loving Jesus, and having an emotional response to his greatness has always come easily to me.  For this is the way he created me.  And he loves that about me.  But that doesn't mean we're done.  This is only the beginning.  Now I am constantly being challenged to learn the how and why Jesus deserves this great emotional response.  The facts about our creator that glorify that greatness.  (And as I have fearfully asked for this knowledge, believe me he is providing.. especially with dear "thinking" friends that aren't afraid to challenge me :)

I am eternally grateful for differences.. "Discovering the qualities that distinguish someone from everyone else is an essential aspect of my personal search for truth."

currently listening: "on ice" by chris thile