Chapter 10
Good Monday Morning to this week 10 of 2023
The other week, some young people at work asked me about my Enneagram type. We had an interesting conversation about it, particularly about its usefulness in our spiritual journey.
But you will not leave in haste or go in flight; for the LORD will go before you, the God of Israel will be your rear guard. Isaiah 52:12.
A verse cut out for the Eights; self-confident, strong, and assertive. Protective, resourceful, straight-talking, and decisive, but can also be ego-centric and domineering.
Brene’ Brown did a quote for the spiritual journey of each Enneagram type. This is her quote to the type eight.
Vulnerability is not weakness; It’s our most accurate measure of courage.
Ignatius Loyola , the founder of the Jesuits, developed a method for spiritual direction and has three core points.
1. To sense the various stirrings that occur in the soul’;
2. To recognize them,’ that is, to understand their origin and goal and to make a judgment on them whether they lead constructively to the meaning-goal of my life, or destructively lead away from it;
3. To take a position toward these stirrings, that is, to accept them or reject them.
Summing up a lot of her spiritual journey, K.J Ramsey puts it this way:
We need water that flows when we are fragile, grace that girds when we are weak, hope that holds us when our hands are empty, holiness that hears and shatters our pride, and a faith far deeper and more mysterious than a mere affirmation that God is good. We need to be pulled into God’s goodness in embodied experiences reflecting who he is.
Wishing you a blessed spiritual journey this week.
Philemon