We need counseling!

This weekend, a team from our organization visited to do some training with our team. The team consisted of two board members of the committee that supervises us and a member of our church's counseling staff. We had a great weekend of fellowship and focused discussion. As I am sure you have experienced, planned training and reflection time generally yields fruit that we are unable to gather in our regular flow of life. I dont know why, but there remains something about just siting down and talking through issues. And, speaking of issues, a major part of our training focused on interpersonal communication within our team. So, to understand ourselves better, we had to take several different personality inventories (Myers-Briggs, FIRO-B, and TKI). I hate inventories. Actually, I love them. But I hate doing them, I hate waiting for the results, but I love hashing out the different scenarios and interpretations of the results. For us, it confirmed that we are crazy and live only by grace. Keri and I have very similar profiles. This has held true for every inventory we have done. It is not that we dont have our differences, but the basics are remarkably similar. This means that everytime we listen to a marriage seminar or read a book about opposites attracting, we wonder if our marriage is ok. Its better than ok, we are ridiculously blessed. I think for most personalities, people may require opposites. Somehow, for our personality types, I dont think we could handle opposites and we feel so blessed at the grace showered on our marriage. Anyways, our team was blessed at the opportunity to talk through our strengths and weaknesses. We pray that our team can continue to work as His body to the deaf of Jamaica. You can visit ACCFS website to learn more about who did our training. If you want to see some more adorable pictures like the one above, CLICK HERE.