If you know your type let me know if my description connects with your approach.
Holy Week and the Nine spiritual personality types of the Ennegram
1.
The Perfectionist
Easter Sunday when all is right is the most comfortable place for the one
personality. But an ONE needs to
remember the chaos and joy of the Palm Sunday parade. Let go it doesn’t have to be perfect and let
the celebration on the parade creep into the Easter perfection.
2.
The Helper
Maundy Thursday’s as Jesus washes the feet of
the disciples would appeal to the TWO personality type. The love of the family gathering is a great
temptation. They would see themselves in
the beloved Disciple. Let it go, go into
the morning darkness of Good Friday and discover that love is deeper than
simple appreciation and that even in the abandonment of the Cross love still
has power.
3.
The Achiever
The THREE personality type can be stuck in
Easter Saturday. Never satisfied with
accepting the Resurrection of new life always hoping for something better,
always worrying about Good Friday undermining their self worth. Let it go, on Resurrection day, accept that
is all grace, you don’t have earn your place at the table, the stone rolled
away without you. Look at the
resurrected one, transformed but still carrying the wounds and scars.
4.
The Individualist
The great temptation for the FOUR type is to
stay in the Good Friday melancholy.
Bleak and sorrowful but so alive. No one feels this more than the FOUR,
and no one can understand. The Four
wants to stay in the brokenness but the call is to Resurrection into a world
and life that is already perfect. Why do
you look for the living among the dead?
5.
The Investigator
Someplace between Sunday morning and Sunday
night, like Thomas the FIVE won’t trust the witness of others, he or she keeps
seeking more evidence. Let it go, trust
and become the one who speaks the truth.
On Easter Morning proclaim with hope and confidence “He is Risen”. Do not remove yourself from the story and the
feelings it invokes with analyses and theories on resurrection, instead use the
story and the feelings to become an advocate for justice and hope in the world.
6.
The Loyalist.
On Maundy Thursday The SIX know that he or she would not have
been like Peter and denied him. Yet
Peter was a six personality type, loyal, committed to the master, the first to
understand who he was and he failed so completely on that fateful night. You will fear what the world thinks of your
trust in Resurrection? You will speak
boldly in Easter worship: “He is Risen” and quickly melt in with the crowd
later in the day. Stop trying to fix the
world and keep it all in it’s proper place.
When you hear the news of hope in the world, nurture that hope, lift it
up, be the bearer of good news to the world.
Be loyal beyond death into new
life.
7.
The Enthusiast
The SEVEN type loves the party of Palm Sunday,
the parade, the singing, the dancing.
Lets stay here and party. Yet the
week continues. Good Friday must come to
every life. The Seven needs to let go of
the shallow celebration and go into deep reflection of the sorrow of Holy
Week. There is wisdom to be found in
the journey. It is only by passing
through the shadows that Resurrection understood. When a Seven Cries out “he is Risen” on Easter
Sunday it will come from a deeper place if the Holy Reflection is part of the
journey.
8.
The
Challenger
Sometime early Friday morning Judas arrives to
betray Jesus, his master. The EIGHT-personality
type would have known what to do.
Challenge, take out the swords, and strike down the offender. O how you hate Judas for his betrayal yet
Judas was the challenger of the group. He is the EIGHT-personality type. Was it self-protection he sought? Did he think he knew better than any
other? The EIGHT type would be wise to
return to the Passover meal and remember the deep love of the family, remember
Jesus serving the others, washing their feet even and remember that is was God
who saved the people. Remember the love Jesus gave even his enemies.
Let go of the need to win, to overcome and to be the wise one. You can’t understand it. Wisdom comes in the
love. He is risen and that is enough
reason to love.
9.
The Peacemaker
On the way to Emmaus. The NINE has hung out with the others for
Holy Week but now it is time to avoid further complications. It was fun while it lasted but now it time
for the peace of home. Some of the
others have been talking about Resurrections but that is just disturbing. There is no peace in the midst of the
chaos. The whole week has been disturbing.
Let it go: Stay in the game, stay loyal
to the cause. The two disciples walk
home to Emmaus and encounter the Risen Christ.
When Christ breaks the bread at the table they are reminded of the act
of love that binds them to the community and they immediately return.
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