Good morning…
“Beneath or inside the life we lead every day is another life,” says the John Tarrant quote in the notes I borrowed from our 93-year-old friend, Christian mystic Betty Skinner. For years Betty used these notes to facilitate spiritual retreats on the Enneagram, the ancient study of the nine basic types of people. Now as I co-teach a six week class on the Enneagram, we wade into the stream where Betty’s soul has been swimming for years.
“This unseen life runs like a river beneath the city, beneath work, family, ambition,” continues Tarrant in The Light Inside the Dark. “In the helper-skelter, in the rush to get an education, to make a career, to make a family, to find material success, to hurry, to do, to survive, this interior life is often subjugated or paved over… But as we awaken and grow accustom to the grace of gradual illumination, the interior life is unstoppable; it comes up in loveliness like jonquils out of fallen snow.”
If you would like to “awaken and grow accustom to the grace of gradual illumination” in your own interior life, please consider taking this free Enneagram test and ponder which of the nine personality types most resembles the unique way our Creator has purposefully wired you.
May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality] (Ephesians 3:16, AMP).
…Sue…
