Unique Design and Life Calling

All of us are created in God’s image, however we are all different in terms of our strengths, passions, and our life experiences. When God uses us with our design his kingdom is created and his will is done on earth. In this paper I will try to describe my unique design to you and how that relates to my life calling.
Life calling is the specific area where Foundational Values, Unique Design, and Personal Leadership all over lap and align to create clarity or life calling. In Unique Design there is Strengths, Passions, and Experiences. Our strengths are from aspects in physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological, and spiritual categories that help us achieve our potential. Each of these strengths must be view in an asset based approach. I do not have the greatest appearance, but I have the gift of oratory so if I was trying to use appearance will not help me in my journey to find my life calling. Then we have passions which are driving forces that guide our lives and the choices we make. Then we have experiences which help shape our choices we make due to past events that have made a huge impact on us.
Strengths are gifts that we have that we us to our benefit, but we must use them in a holistic, Bible-based, and asset-based view. Strengths on the other hand are what we use to help define our unique design. Strengths are what we rely on primarily, such as if we are good at intellectual, we will primarily use those strengths instead of using emotional or physical strengths because we do not have a good measure on them. When we focus solely on our weaknesses, we will not fully understand our unique design. Weaknesses are wake the evil one uses that make us doubt are life calling because we are missing the mark on what our stre...

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...ves the body. All of these aspects we have but we do not have them in all the areas. Some people may be good musicians but may not be the best athletes, or some athletes may not be the best public speakers. People have noticed that I have the gift of oratory because the way I can speak to a crowd and convey my information I needed to share.
Are intellectual strengths are our strengths of how we make and how we bridge our morality with reason. Out of all the strengths that we talk about in class, I believe that this is the one that is the most predominately involved in my life. First, I rather be the guy that is always thinking of different concepts instead of playing on a football field or lifting 345lbs in the weight room. These two strengths are often the most talked about in the secular world but these two by themselves cannot help us advance our life calling.