Feeling….Thinking….Intuiting.
Thinking….Intuiting….Feeling.
Intuiting….Feeling….Thinking.
We’ve all utilized these center of intelligence patterns to process our experiences, making sense of our world. We naturally default to one of these patterns because it has proven to “work” for us. The center we use the least is likely our “repressed center”. Within our repressed center our sin/passion (in Enneagram language) takes its strongest hold on our ego. The aim is to recognize how our passion takes over as a driving force within each center so the other two centers can bring balance, freeing us from our ego.
We all need to be freed from our ego - freed from that which keeps us from experiencing true belonging and freedom in Christ. Until we allow every part of ourselves to belong, there will be no true belonging, there will be no freedom. This is important as we remind ourselves of our mission:
Trinity is fostering a haven of belonging where wanderers and wonderers gather to discover and embody the love of Jesus in the world.
This week, we wonder together. We hold space for a Shared Story and open ourselves to going inward and loving ourselves through our feeling center, allowing us to be present to our whole selves (and return to our humanity). Bringing our feeling center back into belonging (especially for those of us who are feeling repressed!), allows us to experience transformation and ultimately rejoice in the Lord.
The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,
and with my song I praise him.
(Psalm 28.7)
Sunday, MaryBeth Eiler shares part of her story with us. You can read some of her writing, Results that Changed My Life, on faithstorytellers.com.
As we reflect on the Shared Story, let’s consider a few things this week:
Reflect on your experiences through your feeling center.
In what ways does the good news need to take hold in our lives though our feeling center?
Where is the Spirit moving in our lives and calling us to embodied participation in God’s redeeming activity in the world?
What do you need right now to feel empowered to obediently follow God’s prompting and join in the kingdom’s unfolding?