Introverted. Intuitive. Feeling. Perceiving.

"Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
    teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
    for you are the God of my salvation;
    for you I wait all the day long."
Psalm 27:4-5


INFP.

Four letters that make up my personality. The tricky thing with INFP's is that we love to help people but we just don't know exactly what that entails. We change our mind a lot if we don't know where we are going in life. I've changed my mind so many times. From Pharmacy to teaching to ministry to counseling to everything else that involves helping people.

Why am I 24 and still trying to figure out life? Because that's how INFP's work. To a person with a more logical personality, this may seem crazy or irrational. But this is how God made me. I'm a people person. I don't have my life planned out. I'm not the kind of person that knows what I want to do when I'm ten years old and sticks to that plan for the rest of my life.

But every step that I have taken has had a purpose. God has used me to touch lives and for others to touch me as well in every avenue of life and careers choices that I have taken. Another aspect of INFP is that we are extremely hard on ourselves, and at times we question why we make the decisions we make. We are also extremely loyal. When we make commitments we stick to them, and if we don't we feel very guilty.

I have gotten my heart results back and my heart is fine or normal. I do still have asthma and it was exponentially worse in NYC than it has been here in MS so I feel much better. My doctor has said that I am free to go back to NYC but to keep using my inhaler and to contact her when I start to feel worse there. I am going back soon to finish my term there and moving back to MS in November.

Being in MS has given me a lot of quiet time to think and reflect and pray and just seek God entirely. I have made some decisions about seminary and my life goals. I'm discontinuing seminary. I'm going to take the Praxis when I get back to MS and I'm going to get a job and start my Master's in Professional School Counseling. I still will work with non-profit ministries when I can. This might shock, awe, and confuse some people and I understand that fully. I love people and love to see how they work and why they act the way they do. I love to help people, listen to people, and give advice to people. This is what I want to do.

I also love Urban Nations Outreach and think that it is an amazing ministry which everyone should know about and at least volunteer with them for a week or more. They are great and are doing great things for the Lord. My time with them will be short but wonderful. But God is calling me elsewhere afterwards.

Going deeper than my feet could ever wander,
May the peace and love of Christ dwell in your hearts and minds,

Amy Drake
INFP.
Indecisive dreamer.
Lover of the Lord.


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