Katherine in Bulgaria: January 2015

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Myers Briggs Rule Breaking

As many of you know, I am a bit obsessed with Myers Briggs. :) For those who do not know who you are I would highly suggest taking the test. Learn about what your tendencies are and how to work better with others. If you don't want to take a test look below at the picture or ask yourself how you approach rules and figure out what you are. :)

Have fun!

Quick Guide to Myers-Briggs Types- How They Approach Rules

Emily H.Business Instructor, Team Facilitator, CAPM, MBTI Certified, B.A. Linguistics

ENTJ: I make the rules.
ESTJ: I've written down the rules and made copies for everyone.
ESFJ: I've bent over backwards to fulfill all the rules.
ENFJ: Rules are great – they help us be better people.
INTJ: I've discovered all the inconsistencies with the rules and therefore consider them void.
INFJ: These rules are not benefiting me. I'm making up my own rules.
ISTJ: I've completed everything according to the rules.
ISFJ: These rules suck!!! *goes along with the rules*
ENFP: Ooops! I didn't realize there were rules!
ENTP: I've discovered these rules are not actually fulfilling their purpose, let me explain why.
ESFP: Is there a fine for breaking the rules? I'll just pay that.
ESTP: Watch me break the rules!!!!!
INTP: I've figured out a way to bend each rule.
ISTP: These rules are important for others, and if I feel like it I might follow along.
ISFP: I'm breaking all the rules, but it's okay because I don't think anyone noticed.
INFP: Completely unaware that rules exist, worried about why everyone seems so stressed.

Monday, January 19, 2015

Servants Anonymous

https://www.safoundation.com

Daughters of Bulgaria has been in conversation with Servants Anonymous this past year. They have encouraged us to go through their 12 steps program called Formation of Servants. It comes from the Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 steps program but instead of combatting alcoholism we are combatting our daily lives and our idols that keep us away from fully knowing Him and enjoying Him.

All I can say is that is that I wish all humans had to go through this. It is not easy. But it is good.

Can you imagine if the church started having these groups and began holding each other accountable.? Can you imagine the restoration? The vulnerability? The community after people begin realizing that we are not alone in our sin?

We are all in recovery and we all need Him to help us.

THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

His Promise to Us

“Fear not, O Zion;
    let not your hands grow weak.
17 The Lord your God is in your midst,
    a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
    he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
18 I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival,
    so that you will no longer suffer reproach.[c]
19 Behold, at that time I will deal
    with all your oppressors.
And I will save the lame
    and gather the outcast,
and I will change their shame into praise
    and renown in all the earth."
Zephaniah 3:17

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Japan, the land of perpetual eating.

I had the wonderful opportunity to go to Japan and spend Christmas with my brother Hayden. Hayden is stationed in Okinawa and happened to have 96 hours off for Christmas! So I booked my ticket, praying the Marines would not drastically change it's mind, and flew 30 hours to see my sweet brother. The traveling was longer to Japan but the cost was half as much as it is to get to the states. Thankfully.

Our Christmas feast!

In Okinawa we celebrated Christmas on the beach. We ate, drank, played games, ate, shopped, ate, went to the aquarium and ate some more. It was wonderful. A wonderful vacation with one of my favorite people in the world.
It's strange to live this life where I see my family so little. The last time I saw Hayden was in July and he was not yet engaged. The next time I see Hayden will be for his wedding. So strange how much you miss when you are on the field. Which is one of the reasons I jumped at spending Christmas with Hayden. Here are a few things we did. :)