EXPANDED GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT       

STRENGTHS: 

Creativity  -- Thinking novel and productive way to conceptualize an do things. It can include artistic achievement but is not limited to it.  You are artistic, original, imaginative, independent, appreciative.

 Curiosity – Taking an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; finding subject and topics interesting; exploring and discovering. You are open, novelty seeking, interested, engaged in conversations, exploring, inquisitive.

Love of Learning   -- Mastering New skills, tops and bodies of knowledge. To add systematically to what one knows. You are knowledgeable, well-educated, interested, experienced, intelligent, curious, conversant.

Perspective  -- Being Able to provide wise counsel to others; having ways of looked at the world that make sense to oneself and to other people. You are wise, perceptive, insightful, knowledgeable, astute, understanding and a good listener.

 Multi-Disciplinary Thinking

1. Who in your life represents this strength and how?
2. Can you think of someone you don’t know personally, or that you admire from history, who embodies this strength and how?
3. What is the one thing you can do this week to develop this strength?
4. What is one way you have used this strength in the past month?
5. How could you help others develop this strength?
6. How have you helped develop this strength in someone else? Who, and how?
7. Who in your life has helped to foster this strength in you?
8 How do you think the world would benefit from more of this strength?
9. How could this strength help you achieve a goal you have?
10. Can you think of a time you could have used more of this strength? How?
11. How does this strength help you to understand better the Traditional Gifts of the Holy Spirit?
12. Can you think of a Saint who embodied this strength?
13. Do you know a passage or story from Scripture that reflects this strength?