The most helpful thing for me in learning the spiritual aspect of the Enneagram was giving myself permission to not do it the way the Fours in my life do it. My mom and my husband are Fours. They are both introverts. They’re deep thinkers and deep feelers, and they’re contemplative by nature. I’m a party-thrower by nature. That looks a lot less spiritual to a lot of people. But I would say the first thing was giving myself permission to not be like a desert mystic and instead to offer my greatest gift, spiritual or not, which is hospitality. I think it’s one of the ways God uses my life, and I
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