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Insights About Being Human and Unfinished
Posted by Eileen
Understanding the basic differences in people can help us to not hate or judge people different from us and see them as enemies.
All of life is a journey. We are meant to learn and grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually until the day we die.
Knowledge is not the same thing as Wisdom.
Personality Type influences our focus, our preferences, our ability to accept change, persevere, empathize, recognize consequences, type of creativity, need for law, need for order, need for meaning and purpose, need for freedom, what we are good at, how we deal with feelings, how we perceive others, how we express and receive love, etc., etc., etc.
Hormones vary in degree/timing/strengths of effects/ and can have a very varied amount of power over us.
Losing the security of religion and then experiencing the Love of God brings a different level of response than inheriting faith and never questioning, but also in our response to sin and forgiveness of both ourselves and others.
Perfectionism, idealism, even a creative imagination can make everything and everyone seem defective and disappointing…as opposed to human and unfinished.
People in the public eye, such as ministers and politicians, have to appear perfect….a stress which possibly may actually make them more vulnerable to needing the blind affirmation of affairs. (Spouses know their flaws!)