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One of the sixteen callings

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The Lighthouse Keeper

You guide everyone home, but who's keeping your light on?

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What did you come here to do?

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You are oriented toward guidance, being the steady light others steer by in the dark. Your danger is keeping everyone else's light burning while yours runs low.

Your strengths

You stay steady when everyone around you is losing their bearings.

People orient themselves by you without your even trying.

You hold a constant standard others can navigate by.

Your weaknesses

You give light to everyone and forget to tend your own.

You stay at your post long after it's costing you.

You find it hard to ask for the guidance you give so freely.

Your opportunities

Your steadiness is a beacon in any storm-tossed team or family.

Learning to receive keeps your own light from guttering out.

You can become the fixed point a whole community relies on.

Your calling

To be a steady light others can find their way home by.

How this might express itself

The trusted leader

Roles where people need a calm, constant point to steer by.

The anchor

Being the dependable presence a team or family organises around.

The wise counsel

Offering steady guidance to those navigating the dark.

Where this purpose can get lost

When duty quietly empties you, you stay at the post until your own light gutters out, never asking for the guidance you so freely give.

Roles that tend to fit

Leader / directorCounsellorTeacherChaplainTeam leadMentor

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