Yesterday, one of my favorite people came into the office. I was the one who called her references, interviewed her, and hired her as a caregiver. Whenever I ask how she's doing, she always replies, "Wonderful, like you!" She is so cute!
I know only a couple of things about her--she is a hypnotherapist, former psychology professor, and handwriting analyst.
Yesterday she came into the office and analyzed a co-worker's handwriting. When she came back downstairs, she asked to analyze mine. I was very intrigued by this and figured it was a harmless enough thing to do. On a sheet of notebook paper, I was asked to write the following:
"Now's the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their party."
And then I signed my name.
Within a couple minutes, this woman spewed out several of my attributes that could be deciphered from my handwriting. For the most part, they were true. Some things were encouraging, some were convicting. Here are the things she said:
I.....
-don't like details
-am persistent
-am sometimes direct, and sometimes it takes me awhile to get around to the point
-need autonomy ( I probably need a job where I can be the boss....woohoo!!!!)
-am defiant to authority (don't really see that one)
-am generous, willing to work overtime if needed
-spread myself too thin
-underestimate my capabilities
-have a good imagination
-am diplomatic
-like activity, being busy
-am too good for the job I have now (interesting....)
Then in the middle of all this, she says, "Oh, and I'm also a psychic and I don't see you being in this job much longer. I see you going back to school and broadening your opportunities."
Okay, okay, the handwriting analysis: cool. Interesting. I would say, fairly harmless if taken with a grain of salt. But the psychic part! That was somewhat surprising. I mean hypnotherapist and psychic can easily go hand-in-hand. But definitely not cool. Just dark. So I tried to process my interaction with her by asking myself "How could Satan have used this to pull me away from Christ?" and "How could Christ have used this to pull me closer to Him?"
Satan could have used this:
-to try to get me to believe things about myself that really aren't true
-to try to get me to selfishly demand going back to school and thus not supporting my husband
-to try to get me to stop showing the love of Christ to my psychic friend
-to try to convince me that the world of darkness is more interesting and exciting than the world of light
God could have used this:
-to give me compassion for my lost friend
-to remember He is the only one who knows my true future
-to remember to seek His knowledge which is pure and good, rather than that of darkness
-to perhaps better understand why people are attracted to non-biblical meditation, witchcraft, psychics, palm readers, etc.
I suppose I may never really know. And I don't think it's healthy to strangle situations/interactions for meaning, but just reflecting and trying to understand the workings of God is very worthwhile, no matter how few conclusions are reached.
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3 comments:
What an encouragement! Thanks for sharing your thought process. I'm amazed at your wisdom.
Brittany,
I can't wait to get to know you more. This post is so interesting! I love your analysis of the whole situation. What a weird place to be. What do you say after that, really?
I can't wait to see your examples of how your handwriting has evolved! I am obsessed with the different forms that hand writing takes. I love collecting old postcards just to see the writing.
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