Control Freak
It’s funny how quickly time fills up when you think you have nothing to do. It’s hard to believe that it’s almost June, and that in 6 months I will be back in school full time, and saying Goodbye to the Lighthouse for a few years. I can’t believe how much I love that job.
We had a staff retreat last week, where we took a temperament test and listened to someone talk about our temperaments. I am always a little weary of those personality tests, because I don’t like the idea of someone telling me the way I am supposed to be. Apparently that quality about me is part of my temperament. At one point the girl said, “All you Cholerics don’t believe me anyway.” That was true. After resigning myself to the fact that this stuff might be interesting, and I might learn something about myself, I found that I am a full-fledged Choleric. The workshop was actually on our strengths and weaknesses as Christians, and the point of taking the test was to identify our weaknesses so that we could pray about them and be more “Christ-like”. The objective was a good one, so it wasn’t like they were telling us how smart they were because they were able to figure us out. At first I took the test answering the questions as I feel today, and I tested as a Choleric. After that I realized that I took the test wrong, and I was supposed to take it focusing on my earliest memories as a child. I thought that I would go a different direction and be way less Choleric, but after taking the test correctly I ended up being way more Choleric than before. (I’m sure this is all very interesting to those of you who have no idea what I’ m talking about)