I’m glad you’re enjoying learning more about the Enneagram too, Elena! It’s quite fascinating to me how many of the things it gets right. Not everything of course, but enough for it to be a useful tool.

My husband Jeff is a 7 as well (I think) and I can see similar traits in you, both your love for adventure and your positive outlook on life in general. As a 5, I need Jeff’s 7 side to loosen me up. 🙂

And yes, this is the bottom line: “he offers rest in him.” Thanks for sharing that, Anita! Sometimes I forget about the “rest” part but it’s his gift to me that I want and need to receive.

I’m glad you’re learning things too, Martha! I am as well. Writing the series has made me go back through a lot of books and things I’ve read previously so I can understand it better myself to share with others.

I think that’s exactly what my older sister is, too, Lesley: a 6w5. No wonder I feel like I know you. 🙂 My sister and I have a lot in common. I am either a 5w4 or a 5w6 so we should have a lot in common too.

I love that you are able to tell that voice in your head that it’s not speaking God’s truth to you. I am slowly but surely learning to do that as well when I have anxious thoughts (I tend toward both worry and perfectionism). Your analysis is beautiful: Christ will give us the ability to do what he calls us to do. Amen! Thanks, Martha.