S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you Jo Browning for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored (in alphabetical order):

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To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My life has been blessed by God’s faithfulness, my personal relationship with Jesus, promptings of the Holy Spirit, involvement in church & desire to keep learning.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I believe it is the right thing to do: To love God with my whole mind, heart, and soul; and love my neighbor as myself.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
St. Teresa of Avila wrote, “Christ has no body now on earth but yours: no hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes with which He looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, your are the eyes, you are His body with which He blesses all the world.”

[H]eart

1. Sing praise, give thanks, love and glory – so much so, that I am lost in worship, in awe, and in adoration of God; and knowing nothing else on earth compares with His unconditional love, goodness and mercy.

2. Spending time with my family – telling stories, playing games, laughing so much it hurts and enjoying the antics of our loveable, huggable dogs.

3. Spending time with my dearest friends, doing much of the fun I mentioned above, and praying together, ministering to others together and being grateful.

Married couples through Worldwide Marriage Encounter Ministries. Also, faith-filled, like-minded adults, who are seeking, curious and motivated.

Small groups, bible studies, fund-raisers for youth, parish festivals, women of St. Dennis events, hosting WWME romantic dinners and community meetings

Marriage/family issues
Compulsive behavior
Educational

[A]bilities

Encouraging Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Friend

Teaching children grades K-8 in both public and Catholic schools

Teaching children for 40 years

Presenter for Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends to married couples

Caring

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

Otter- Otters are very social creature. Otter personalities love people. They enjoys being popular and influencing and motivating others. Otter can sometimes be hurt when people do not like them. Otter personalities usually have lots of friends, but not deep relationships. They love to goof-off. (They are notorious for messy rooms.) Otters like to hurry and finish jobs. (Jobs are not often done well.) The otter personality is like Tigger in Winnie The Pooh.

Strength: People person, open, positive
Weakness: Talks too much, too permissive
Limitation: Remembering past commitments, follow through with discipline

[E]xperience

Baptized as an infant into the Catholic Church as an infant. Attended Catholic schools from Kindergarten through Graduate School

Religious Education Teacher, Eucharistic Minister, Volunteer for Parish Events – Good Shepherd, Menomonee Falls, WI ( 3 years)

Religious Ed Teacher, Cantor, Lector, Welcoming Committee, Liturgy Committee, Small Group Leader, Parent Volunteer at SFC Catholic School, Parishioner Volunteer for Parish Events – St. Frances Cabrini Parish, West Bend, WI (35 years)

Small Group Leader and Volunteer for Parish Events at St. Dennis Parish, Madison, WI (2 years)

Attending a Life in the Spirit Seminar leading to Baptism of the Holy Spirit, August 18, 1983; creating a prayer group for children after Sunday Mass, participating in family service outreaches in the the West Bend community and and taking on active roles in our parish, St. Frances Cabrini, from 1978-2016, when we moved to Madison and became parishioners of St. Dennis Parish

Attending a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend in 1978, creating an I.M.A.G.E (I Marriage and God Encounter) group of encountered couples to continue the journey; attending another WWME weekend around 2011, forming another I.M.A.G.E group serving encountered couples in nine different parishes

Selected to become Presenting Team Leaders, sent to Houston, Texas, to go through discernment process for becoming members of Presenting Teams. Taking Leadership Positions in our WWME Region, and presenting many weekends in the Rockford, Madison and Milwaukee dioceses

Sudden death of my father and tragic deaths of loved ones in my brothers’ families

Repeated bouts of major depression

Rough times in our marriage

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. For our adult children to return to the Church

4. To see our grandchildren baptized into the Church

5. Personal Relationship with Jesus for loved ones