Session 8 · Strengths as Entrusted Gifts
A prayerful inventory of how God wired you to flourish
Your Gifts of Grace are not personality traits to optimize—they are particular gifts entrusted to you by God for your own flourishing and the service of others.
The Framework
God did not make you in generalities. He made you in particulars—with a specific mind, a specific heart, a specific way of moving through the world. These are not accidents. They are gifts.
The Gifts of Grace are 24 natural strengths organized under four families: Gifts of the Mind (how you think, learn, and discern), Gifts of the Heart (how you love, connect, and relate), Gifts of the Will (how you act, lead, and persevere), and Gifts of the Soul (how you encounter God and transcendence).
Every woman carries all 24 gifts to varying degrees. Your signature gifts—your top 5—are the ones that feel most essentially you. Living from them doesn't exhaust you. It frees you.
Take the Gifts of Grace inventory to discover your unique profile— all 24 gifts ranked, your top 5 revealed, and results saved directly to your Symphony Profile.
Take the Inventory →72 reflective statements. Takes about 15 minutes. Results save automatically to your Symphony Profile.
The 24 Gifts
How you think, learn, and discern
You see what isn’t there yet—and you know how to bring it into being. You make things—beauty, solutions, connections, meaning—out of what everyone else walks past.
Questions delight you. You don’t find uncertainty threatening—you find it interesting. Your curiosity is not distraction; it is desire. You were made to seek.
You are never quite finished learning. New ideas, new subjects, new depths of old ones—they fill something in you that stays hungry. Wonder keeps you humble and alive.
You see clearly. You weigh things carefully and resist the pull toward easy answers. Discernment is not cynicism; it is clear-eyed love.
You stand back and see the whole. Where others are caught in the immediate, you find the longer view—the pattern, the meaning, the larger story.
You know how to act well in the particular moment. Not just what is true in the abstract, but what is right here, now, for this person. You don’t just know the good; you know how to do it.
How you love, connect, and relate
You love deeply and you mean it. Not the feeling that comes and goes, but the kind of love that shows up, stays, and gives itself away. You don’t love halfway.
You notice the person in front of you. Not the role, not the function—the person. Tenderness is not softness for its own sake; it is strength that has chosen to be gentle.
You read rooms, relationships, and people with an accuracy that can feel almost uncanny. You were given eyes that see people truly so that you could love them truly.
You know how to let things go—not because they didn’t matter, but because you’ve touched something of the mercy of God and can’t help but pass it on.
You see yourself as you are—neither inflated nor diminished. The gift of standing before God without performance, without apology, without pretense.
You know how to make people laugh, and you understand instinctively that laughter is a form of grace. It is the gift of the woman who dances at the feast because she knows the Host.
How you act, lead, and persevere
You act even when you are afraid. Not the absence of fear—you feel it—but you don’t let it have the last word. Courage is love that has decided the risk is worth it.
You finish what you start. You are the woman who shows up on the hard days, the unglamorous days, the days when no one is watching. Steadfastness builds things that last.
What you say and who you are match. In a world of curated personas, you are refreshingly, sometimes uncomfortably, real.
You bring people together, hold the group, tend the we. Unity doesn’t erase difference; it harmonizes it. This is the gift that builds the Body of Christ from the inside out.
You feel the weight of what is right and wrong, and you can’t pretend otherwise. You are the woman who speaks up, who counts everyone in, who refuses to look away.
You lead by walking ahead and turning back to make sure everyone is still with you. Your leadership looks like tending—knowing the names of the people in your care.
You have an interior governor—a capacity to align your actions with your values even when your feelings pull another way. Order is the gift that makes everything else possible.
How you encounter God and transcendence
You stop. You notice. Beauty is how God signs His work, and you were given eyes to see His signature everywhere. Beholding is not aesthetic indulgence; it is a form of prayer.
You receive well. You have a native capacity to find the grace inside the moment and name it. Thanksgiving is not optimism; it is attentiveness.
You carry the future with you. Holy Hope is not wishful thinking; it is theological conviction lived from the inside out. You act as if the resurrection already changes everything—because it does.
You bring energy into the room when you enter it. Not performance—presence. It is the overflow of a soul that has said yes to being here, fully, without holding back.
There is a hunger in you that the world cannot satisfy—and you’ve stopped trying to make it. This longing is not a wound; it is a compass pointing always toward God.
Putting It to Work
Your signature gifts—your top 5—are the ones that feel most authentically you. Living from them doesn’t exhaust you. It frees you. They’re often so native to who you are that you may not even recognize them as gifts at all.
In A Symphony of Grace, we explore your Gifts of Grace as entrusted gifts—given by God for your own flourishing and to bless those around you. The question isn’t just what they are, but how you are stewarding them.
When you live from your signature gifts, you’re not performing a version of yourself. You’re living as the woman God actually made.
Save to Your Profile
After completing the inventory, your top 5 Gifts of Grace save automatically. You can also enter or update them here.
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
— Ephesians 2:10
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