Personality Testing

I have been doing a lot of personality tests for one of my assignments over the last few weeks, so thought I would share them with you. Some were helpful, others gave a list of letters and descriptions, but the one that I though was best was the one we had to compare the rest to- the RHETI- an enneagram.

Anyway, here are the websites, so if you feel like it, take a look and see how you go. The first three use the Myers Briggs score outcome, whereas the Enneagram has a different set of descriptors.

First up is the Socionics test, which is a list of questions.

The Keirsey test is one where you have to choose 60-90 words that best describe you, then best describe what you are not. An interesting one.

There is the Myers Briggs test (there is one going around on Face book at the moment)

And then there is the Enneagram! There is a short version on the website, but I have the book of the longer official version. I did try the short one, and it was fairly close. This is the one I preferred as it gives an idea of who you are, who you are at your best, and not so best, when you are angry, and gives some direction of where you can potentially go from there- it’s much more transitional and growth oriented which I found helpful. Let me know what you think:)

Enjoy!

All things new

My head seems to be on overload a fair amount of the time, and right now it's on overload, because one of the random things I am doing this week... is starting a business...!!!

Well, it's a tiny seed of a business, but I have high hopes for it to last and grow (Slowly and steadily!). It's big (to me) and scary (depending on how I am thinking of it), but I have been amazed by what talking to people has done, and how this has all grown out of talking with people, random conversations, or strings of conversations as the case may be....

So, this Saturday will be the first week. I will be selling soaps and stationery from an awesome organisation based in the Philippines that do an incredible job. I love that by stepping out in this way, it will help people in another country, and while I haven't met them yet, I am getting to know each of their stories!

I am so grateful for each of the people who have supported me so far, for the conversations and people along the way, for the awesome ideas, and people's willingness to help. Amazing.

And as with all things, time will tell, God will be there, and I just have to keep excercising my trust in him!

Fully Alive

Fully Alive

I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fearof falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid,

more accessible,

to loosen my heartuntil it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance;

to live so that which came to me as seed

goes to the next as blossom

and that which came to me as blossom,

goes on as fruit.

- Dawna Markova


One of my lecturers shared this with the class this week, and it was so evocative of many things I have been thinking through this year. The picture of a bird soaring on the wind has been one that continues to come back to me, and this poem reminded me of that, and much more. Enjoy!

Melbourne

I went to Melbourne for work last weekend. It was awesome, but completely exhausting, and different to the time there that I had expected. Apart from catching up with a good friend from HK, we really did see the hotel room, the convention centre, and the walk down the river in between!

It was also a lovely time of encouragement, of seeing an eclectic team of people working together- a group who see each other twice a year, as they are all based around the country as reps for the company.

One of the things that most encouraged me, was that yes, we are a mostly peopled by Christians, and, as such, were a company in a mainstream gift show. So, we were representing the company, and as Christians, being ambassadors for God. It was such an encouragement then, to meet other Christians there, and to see people’s reactions as they came onto our stand. Some asked if we were a Christian organization, so we were able to share in different cases, which was absolutely lovely. One pair of women asked, because they have a niece who is 9 and a Christian, so were wondering! In a crazy time away, it was those moments when God broke through in wonderfully life bringing ways which made it all worthwhile.

Isaiah

I have recently started reading Isaiah, and was really stuck by chapter 3 and 4! Chapter 3 starts by describing what sounds like the main building blocks that holds Jerusalem together, from food and water, to leaders, to the average man who does his job, saying he will remove them from their positions and destroy the land, and yet, coming to chapter 4, there is a beautiful picture of love, care, and redemption!! It says…

In that day, the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel. Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded amongst the living in Jerusalem. The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire. Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over all the glory will be a canopy. It will be a shelter and a shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain. (Isaiah 4:2-6)

I love that picture, the God has a plan, that he saves, and creates beauty out of what is soiled, washing it clean, and that its’ God that is our hiding place, our refuge who we can turn to, and be protected in the storm and rain.

I have read Isaiah in bits and pieces, but so look forward to reading it again from start to end- like every book of the Bible, there is much treasure within!