The Kindest Personality Type

The Kindest Personality Type

Old souls come in every personality type, from wildly extroverted to deeply introverted and shy. But one thing they all have in common is that they're good company for themselves, even if they also enjoy the company of others.

"I almost always prefer time to myself than packing my calendar with social events," says Rachel D., a project manager at a digital agency. "Some of my favorite activities are going for a stroll, people watching, going to a concert/coffee/meal alone."

Here's why old souls feel comfortable in solitude: In addition to perspective and empathy, old souls tend to have pretty decent imaginations. If you've always been good at entertaining yourself, whether you're a bookworm or an artist or an enthusiastic collector, you already know what we're talking about.

Perhaps one of the kindest personality types in the entire Myers-Briggs personality set is the ISTJ — and that’s why we all love them.

Being an ISTJ is a great thing. In fact, many of the most well-liked people in society are members of this personality type. George Washington, Queen Elizabeth II, and Warren Buffet are all examples of this personality type.

ISTJ stands for Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, Judgment.

These are qualities that an ISTJ personality is heavily known for, and they’re qualities that often end up propelling them into managerial positions as a result.

ISTJs are the most common personality type in the world, and if you ask us, that’s great! Ever wonder if you’re one of the quiet, kind, and mellow people who belong to this personality type? Here’s the signs you need to check out, and what they mean for you.

1. People have actually called you “an old soul” or told you that you are old-fashioned.

ISTJs are as old school as they come — and that’s a great thing. They value tradition and often will stick to the “tried and true” paths of building a good life rather than venture out into unknown (and possibly dangerous) territories.

2. Your idea of a nice day is spent inside, at home.

You might enjoy baking cookies, or having a dinner with the fam, but really, not much else. ISTJs are known for being homebodies and introverts who just want to relax after a hard day’s work.

3. Everyone tends to go to you when they want someone to be realistic and responsible.

With ISTJs, responsibility is always the name of the game. You’re the one they’ll approach when they need advice on insurance, taxes, or even something like childcare. Why? Because they know you won’t be doing something crazy or be unrealistic with your advice.

4. It’s the little things in life that thrill you.

Making a new craft out of a Mason jar? Sweet! Seeing a nice day in the park? Also perfect. You don’t need things like clubs and bottles of bubbly to get you going if you have an ISTJ personality.

5. At work, you often end up in a managerial position.

You might also be an accountant or a scientist. Numbers are kind of your thing in many cases. Because ISTJs are notoriously hard workers who focus on getting things done well and on time, it’s safe to say that finding a job is rarely ever a struggle. You’re what bosses call “the Golden Employee.”

6. You tend to take badly to change, imperfection, or unpredictability.

Stability and regularity is what makes you as an ISTJ feel safe. If you feel a job isn’t done properly, or if you feel you can’t predict people well, it will end up causing you to get irate. The word “perfectionist” gets thrown around a lot with you.

7. You often end up caring more about being right than making the other person feel good.

This is also a leading cause of relationship problems with ISTJs. Their need for logic and correctness can get so thorough, they may even alienate those around them.

8. Honesty is the best policy with you.

ISTJs are often honest to the point of blunt. This can be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on what you end up doing.

9. People have called you “safe."

You know what that means, and it’s not a bad thing. It means they know they can depend on you.
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10. You’re known for making it your personal duty to keep friends and family happy.

To a point, ISTJs are known for being people pleasers. They will often go the extra mile to keep people around them happy, simply because they feel it’s the right thing to do. They may even blame themselves for things that are not in their control because of this.

11. Overall, you’re a very calm and practical person.

You’re all about realistic goals and slowly reaching them.

Anxiety doesn’t really happen unless you’re thrown for a loop, and even then, it’s almost always temporary.

12. The only time you’ll see an ISTJ be spastic is if they are perfectionists.

This is probably the biggest Achilles’ heel of the ISTJ personality type. For ISTJs, everything has to be perfect, especially at work. For everyone else, dealing with an ISTJ who takes this too far can be a nightmare.

Prayer Initiative

Prayer Initiative

Citizens/Voters

Suggested Scriptural references ...

Upright citizens are good for a city and make it prosper, but the talk of the wicked tears it apart. Proverbs 11:11

I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds...  Hebrews 10:16

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.  Proverbs 25:26 

We will no longer be immature like children.  We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching.  We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.  Ephesians 4:14 

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting...  James 1:5-6

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.  Romans 13:7

Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."  Mark 12:17

Suggested prayers ...

Teach us, Lord, to value our role as citizens.  Awaken in the electorate a desire to know the true principles upon which this country was built, and draw us to Your vision for the restoration of our beloved country.

 

Let us never take for granted the free land You have given us.  Please show us, Lord, how to do our part to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and those to come. 

 

We ask for leaders and a citizenry who truly understand our accountability before You for every vote we cast, or do not cast.  Help us to wisely evaluate every candidate and policy against your Word.  We ask for the wisdom to vote as You would have us vote.

We ask You to grant our citizens the wisdom to discern truth from spin and deception.  Give us radar to know when a candidate or policy is counterfeit to the true founding principles and Constitutional roots of this land, borne out of faith in You and Your word.   

Move our leaders and our citizens to rightly divide the responsibilities of government vs. the responsibilities of citizens as defined by You.  

God Almighty, we plead with you to guide, guard, convict and correct all candidates, campaigns, consultants, political operatives and staff members.  We ask You to draw them to integrity before the citizens of this country.  Give them the will to honestly place their values and visions before us, free of manipulation and deception.  We ask You to expose and defeat those who lie. 

We pray, Lord, against the voter fraud that has so crippled our confidence in the electoral process.  We ask You to expose and bring to justice those who would undermine free and fair elections.  Please help us to restore integrity to the election process in America. Rid our system of corruption, we pray.

O Lord, give me the wisdom and the courage to confidently and winsomely take a stand for Your Truth with my fellow citizens.  Use my voice, Lord, I pray.

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“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature...If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”   President James Garfield

Today in History

Today in History1994

Achille Lauro Sinks Near Somalia

The Achille Lauro cruise ship caught fire and sank to the bottom of the sea near Somalia on this day in 1994. The large luxury liner had a checkered history that included deaths and terrorism prior to its sinking.

The construction of the Willem Ruys by the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Line took more than 10 years. The completed ship, which weighed in at 24,000 gross tons and was launched in 1947, was used to carry passengers and cargo back and forth from the Netherlands to the East Indies.

In the 1960s, it was primarily used to carry immigrants to Australia. In 1965, the Star Lauro company bought the ship to add it to its cruise line.

In 1971, the ship, re-named Achille Lauro, rammed an Italian fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea, killing one person. Ten years later, a fire on board the ship killed two people. The most infamous incident in the history of the Achille Lauro, though, occurred in 1985, when it was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists who shot and killed an American passenger, Leon Klinghoffer.

In 1994, the Achille Lauro was carrying 1,000 passengers near the Horn of Africa when a fire broke out on board. The lifeboats were launched as the fire caused the huge ship to list to the port side. A tug boat was sent to bring it back to shore, but as the tug was trying to connect to the ship, there was a huge explosion. Two people died and the Achille Lauro sank to the bottom of the ocean.

The survivors in the lifeboats were picked up by the USS Gettysburg. The Achille Lauro‘s two sister ships, the Lakonia and the Angelina Lauro, also fell victim to on-board fires.

Excerpt from...

Excerpt from Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis.

In 1952, the introduction of Charlie Brown and the comic strip Peanuts, with its clean drawings and psychological orientation, made for a stark contrast with both the clutter and vaudeville-gag orientation in other cartoon strips of the time:

"Most cartoon drawing is about distraction: popular masters like Walt Kelly and Al Capp crowded their panels with characters and activity; Pogo and Li'l Abner are dense wi...th what actors call 'business.' Peanuts, full of empty spaces, didn't depend on action or a particular context to attract the reader; it was about people working out the interior problems of their daily lives without ever actually solving them. The absence of a solution was the center of the story. 

"The American assumption was that children were happy, and childhood was a golden time; it was adults who had problems with which they wrestled and pains that they sought to smooth. Schulz reversed the natural order of [things] ... by showing that a child's pain is more intensely felt than an adult's, a child's defeats the more acutely experienced and remembered.

Charlie Brown takes repeated insults from Violet and Patty about the size of his head, which they compare with a beach ball, a globe, a pie tin, the moon, a balloon; and though Charlie Brown may feel sorry for himself, he gets over it fast. But he does not get visibly angry.

" 'Would you like to have been Abraham Lincoln?' Patty asks Charlie Brown. 'I doubt it', he answers. 'I have a hard enough time being just plain Charlie Brown.'

"Children are not supposed to be radically dissatisfied. When they are unhappy, children protest -- they wail, they whine, they scream, they cry -- then they move on. Schulz gave these children lifelong dissatisfactions, the stuff of which adulthood is made.

"Readers recognized themselves in 'poor moon-faced, unloved, misunderstood' Charlie Brown -- in his dignity in the face of whole seasons of doomed baseball games, his endurance and stoicism in the face of insults. He ... reminded people, as no other cartoon character had, of what it was to be vulnerable, to be small and alone in the universe, to be human -- both little and big at the same time."


Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
Author: David Michaelis

Words to Ponder

1. Words to Ponder
   The BIBLE
   "...a prophet is not without honor but in his own country, among his own people." Mark 6:3,4
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3. Quotes of Presidents
   "To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift." Franklin D. Roosevelt
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5. Wise Words
   "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe." Albert Einstein
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Saudi Arabia Hosts Counter-Terrorism Summit

Saudi Arabia Hosts 41 Muslim Countries for Counter-Terrorism Summit by News Staff

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowed to "pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the Earth."

(Saudi Arabia)—[JNS.org] Government officials representing 41 Muslim countries convened in Saudi Arabia last Sunday for the first Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition, headed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

At the conference, the crown prince vowed to "pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the Earth," and further stated, "In past years, terrorism has been functioning in all of our countries ... with no coordination. This ends today, with this alliance."

The alliance categorizes itself as a "pan-Islamic unified front" and was initiated with the crown prince's backing in 2015.

The group is predominantly comprised of Sunni states. It excludes Syria, Iraq, Qatar and Saudi Arabia's arch-rival, the Shi'a power of Iran.

Qatar, which was originally included in the alliance, was not invited due to its dispute with Arab states over Doha's sponsorship of terrorism and cooperation with Iran.

Saudi Lt. Gen. Abdulelah al-Saleh denied that the aim of the alliance is to create a Sunni bloc to counter Iran.

"The enemy is terrorism. It's not sects or religions or races, its terrorism," said Saleh.

Mom Begs Holy Spirit

Mom Begs the Holy Spirit to Bring Her Son Back After He Was Submerged in Icy Waters for Nearly 15 Minutes By Bill Hallowell, Senior Editor, CBN News

One mom learned the power of prayer in the most incredible of ways after her teenage son accidentally fell through some ice at a Missouri lake, was submerged for nearly 15 minutes — and was subsequently declared clinically dead.

But Joyce Smith refused to give up hope, as she let out a heartfelt prayer for healing inside of her 14-year-old son John’s hospital room. Suddenly, his heart started beating again, as the stunning miracle shocked friends, family and physicians, alike.

Smith, who recounts the harrowing ordeal in her new book, “The Impossible,” recently told Faithwire all about the January morning in 2015 when John fell through the ice and nearly died. She recalled how she spoke on the phone with John about the family’s plans for the day just before he walked out onto the ice.

Minutes later, Smith said she was reading her devotions when the phone rang and a friend delivered the heartbreaking news that no mother ever wants to hear.

“She said, ‘The boys were out walking on the lake in the ice and John fell through and they’ve just pulled him out of the water and he doesn’t have a heart beat,” Smith said. “It was that telephone call you never wanna get.”

Smith quickly rushed out of her house in a panic, calling and texting her husband, friends and family as she sped to the hospital. In the midst of her pain and uncertainty, she turned to God for help.

“All of a sudden I just started praying … I was having a very loud conversation with the Lord,” she said. “John’s adopted from Guatemala. And I said, ‘This is the child we prayed for 17 years well you can’t take him away from me, please Lord.'”

Smith said that her church was doing a Bible study at the time called “Believing God” by Beth Moore. With that in mind, she started fixating on the truths embraced by that study, including the fact that “God is who he says he is” and “I can do all things through God and through Jesus Christ.”

Those messages sustained her, as she became resolute that her son would survive the horrific circumstances.

“I [didn’t] care that he didn’t have a heart beat, that didn’t matter to me,” she said. “I just had an assurance that God was not going to take John away from me.”

Looking back, Smith’s unwavering faith in light of the circumstances at hand is pretty remarkable, as police reports indicate that John was without a heartbeat for nearly an hour.

In fact, doctors had been waiting to call a time of death before Smith arrived at the hospital. Rather than give up on CPR, though, the doctor decided to keep working until she arrived. What followed, she said, was a “tapestry of miracles.”

“I walked [in] and sat down in the room at the end of the bed and I could see [the doctor] phasing back and forth and he finally came over and sat down next to me … and goes, ‘Joyce, you can go up to the end of the bed and talk to John,'” she recalled. “Which I thought was very strange, again not knowing they’re wanting to call time of death. And there was a very large young man who had been doing CPR on John for a long time and he was soaked in sweat. You could tell he’d just been really working on John.”

Then, she took a closer look at John and realized just how dire the situation had become.

“I walked up to the end of the bed and I got a hold of his feet and they were cold and they were grey and I just knew that was that moment that I had to get a hold of God,” Smith said. “So, I reached over a hold of his feet and I just prayed and I thought I was praying very quietly, but everyone in the emergency room could hear me and I prayed, ‘Holy spirit, please come and bring back my son.”

That prayer changed everything. Seconds later, Smith heard someone say, “I got a pulse,” as everyone in the room stood in shock.

Here was a mother who had appealed to God for what seemed to be the impossible and, seconds later, her wish was apparently granted. Smith was thankful to God, but doctors were still skeptical that recovery was possible, as John had been without a heartbeat for so long.

Smith recalled being frustrated when another doctor who specializes in hypothermia and drowning delivered a dire prognosis. She simply wasn’t willing to embrace it.

“He angered me because to me I felt like God had already answered my prayers and John was going to be okay and he just needed to get on board with this.” she said. “And I just got up from my chair and I told him, ‘Here’s the deal. I said, ‘I hear you’re the best so I just want you to do your job and do it to the best of your abilities and my God will do the rest.'”

Again, Smith wouldn’t give up. Even when negative information came along, she, her friends, family and church community chose to believe that John would be healed. And her defiance was warranted, as John woke up on the third day and, from then out out, experienced a miraculous recovery. In fact, John is now living as a normal teen.

“God has just totally restored him,” she said. “There is nothing that has been left over from the accident … God has totally restored and healed John and brought him back. And he’s an amazing young man.”

Smith said the experience was so transformative that John is now looking to go into ministry as a result of all that unfolded. And she’s hoping that the family’s story as told through her book “The Impossible” and a movie slated to come next year will inspire the masses to believe in the power of hope — and miracles.

“God is still the same yesterday, today and forever,” Smith said. “He is still the God of miracles. There is still nothing that is impossible with him.”