SPIRIT Questions for Session 3: HUMANITY
STRENGTHS:
LOVE - Valuing close relations with others in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated; being close to people. You are friendly, loving, caring, good listener, affectionate, warm, devoted, intimate.
KINDNESS - Doing favors and good deeds for others, helping them; taking care of them. You are generous, loving, selfless, nurturing, caring, compassionate, altruistic, nice.
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE - Being aware of the motives and feelings of other people and oneself; knowing what to do to fit into different social situations; knowing what makes other people tick. You are sociable, savvy, perceptive, likable, clever, insightful, intelligent, analytical.
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. Is this one of your five strengths? Why or why not?
13. Is possible to have too much of this strength?
14. Can you think of a Saint who embodied this strength?
15. Do you know a passage or story from Scripture that reflects this strength?