Compassion

that's the spiritual gift that I was given according to a class that I just finished in my Women's Faith Focus group. It was a very eye opening experience for me to learn more about this and the others spiritual/motivational gifts that are in the Bible (Romans 12:6-8).

Some of the key characteristics of someone who operates in the Compassion gift are:

• Caring
• Sensitive
• Self-sacrificing
• empathetic
• Thoughtful
• Feeling- oriented

Now if you know me, you'd know that I have all of these traits (even if I don't use them all the time).

Some of the areas for growth for people with the Compassion gift are:

• Conflict avoidance
• Taking up offenses
• Unhealed past wounds
• Inability to let go
• Expressions of affections mis-interpreted by opposite sex

Yep, again some of these can describe me perfectly, I'm one who likes to avoid conflicting and fighting at all costs, and I do have a hard time letting some things go.

My secondary gift is that of Teacher. In regards to this type of gift, it's not so much as the ability to teach others, it's more like a scholarly gift. I do love to do research and love learning lol.

This was a great experience for me to learn more about why I can act the way that I do. I'm hoping to get the book that goes along with the study so that I can do more research on to the other gifts.