Spiritual Gifts

Last night, I went to my first FLO class, and I really, really liked it. I cracked up at the ladies in there, you can truly tell it was a room full of women. As my husband refers to it, cackling hens. HA! Well in the class we took a survey on our personalities, I am a golden retriever by the way. I was not shocked by this, which I guess you could say is perfect for me. I said I didn't want to be a golden retriever, only because sometimes I wish I could be a little better about standing on firm ground. Work in progress, people. We also talked about our spiritual gifts and how we could use them in church. So, anyway. I went home last night and thought about my spiritual gifts, and I talked to Philip about it on the way home from church, telling him I had no idea what my gift was. Is it wrong to ask someone to tell you what your spiritual gift is? No, really. I filled out the survey, where you circle from 1 to 4, 1 being lowest, 4 being highest, on things you are interested in. I rated the highest in administration (no surprise), writing (no surprise there, either), evangelism (wow), and faith (wow, too). I was totally surprised by evangelism and faith, which when you read where you could use these in church, it gave examples of being a new member sponsor, new member project leader, so on and so on, and I could so see that, I could see me being involved in a new member program, a part of a committee, something along those lines, so I asked myself what the problem is. Well, one, I guess my hesitation is fear, fear of rejection, fear that someone might say I am not spiritual enough, another work in progress, well maybe there is not another excuse, because this is a big one for me. I really have to pray about this, because I am not one to jump out there and say come on let's do this, when everything inside of me is screaming for me to be this person. Well folks, if you read this, pray for me and that I will listen to what God is telling me, and I will find my calling and do something I am passionate about and really enjoy it. Oh, by the way I thought about the thing that makes me go YAY, is children, especially girls. When I first wrote that sentence, I wondered if that sounded right, but all children melt my heart and I love too see them growing up and how they change over the years. I love little girls, for one, I am a girl, and two, I love dress up, and all girly things, I know if or when I have children, the Lord is going to bless us with a boy, because He probably figures I need that experience in raising a boy, and our budget would plummet because I would buy everything in sight that was even close to being girly. HA! So I am thinking of what I could do for our girls in the church, and I am going to pray about it and ask God to lead me in the right direction.

Whew, this is a long post, sorry, I just get on a roll and type away.

Many blessings,
Jenn