Bart Millard is searching for stability; he wants to find a firm, unchanging structure for his life. But his efforts to achieve this ideal are often vain, because unconsciously, he is also inhabited by the opposite desire. Every time he reaches what he believes to be a good balance, he realizes he wants something entirely different. He would do well to become aware that the concepts of stability and balance are difficult to apply to life. By definition, life is movement, change, and perpetual instability.

You have a strong paternal complex, and as a result, some trouble finding your identity. Perhaps your father or a father figure was absent physically or emotionally during your childhood, which deprived you of the patterns or models which are usually helpful in structuring a personality. Because you might have lacked a particular sense of security which could be provided by a paternal presence, as well as the examples of behavior to follow in confronting the difficulties inherent in every life, you were forced to protect yourself against negative influences and find your own system in order to grow and feel secure. Although this system was quite useful to you as a child, it has now settled in to such a degree that it interferes with your evolution. Psychological defense mechanisms and crutches which were once useful now encumber your mind or inhibit your developmental efforts. As a result, in certain situations, it is difficult for you to assert yourself, and you might tend to remain an awkward or passive observer. Because your authoritarian urges are mainly directed at yourself rather than others, you sometimes feel guilty about your behavior. You judge yourself severely, and sometimes punishes yourself by setting difficult tasks for yourself. Gradually, you should build up a strong inner discipline and acquire the strength to face the problems of existence in a detached and mature way.

Bart Millard is very sensitive and receptive. He lives in osmosis with his surroundings and often finds it difficult to communicate his feelings to other people. This tide of emotion is a source of inspiration and intuition, but due to his lack of inner structure and organization, it is difficult for him to grasp the essence of his dreams and share them with other people. Bart Millard is not at all combative, and this hinders his efforts to fit into society and assert himself productively. His tendency to prefer fantasy to reality and his refusal to abandon his unattainable dreams is a psychological trap he has fallen into without realizing it. Bart Millard must understand that by escaping from his obligations and commitments, he only increases the feelings of guilt and incompetence which made reality so distasteful in the first place. Once he free himself from this pernicious process, he has a great deal of potential for fulfilling himself in the outer world, either by devoting himself to the community or by cultivating his considerable artistic talents.

Bart Millard is extremely sociable. He is instinctively in tune with others and a need to be accepted and respected makes him tactful and diplomatic. He is also fond of harmony and order in artistic terms. He is sensitive and discerning and will avoid anything crude and vulgar. As a result, he is sometimes offended by the harsh demands of existence. Relationships (the couple, or a partnership) take a central role in his life.

Bart Millard sat in his office, trying to make sense of the mess his life had become. He had always been a fairly conservative man, following the rules and respecting tradition. But now, things were changing. He felt like he was losing his grip on reality and was constantly on edge. He was frustrated with how his life was going and felt like he was drowning in his own emotions. He had great faith in contracts, believing that they could help to solidify relationships. But even those were starting to feel like they were slipping through his fingers.

You are emotional and tend to react suddenly and excessively as soon as your sensitivity is touched. Although you feel that your independence, freedom, and self-sufficiency are fundamental values, you are sometimes frustrated by your need to rely on your family or friends. Moreover, you do not always grant the freedom of other people the same respect as your own. Likewise, you are sometimes angered by expressions of maternal tenderness, as if you feared that it would doom you to eternal dependency. Your ambivalent behavior, full of jagged edges, may be traced back to the relationship you had with your mother or a mother figure. Although you were dependent on them, they may have rejected you. Now this attitude is extended to any situation in which your sensitivity comes into play and emotional bonds are liable to form. To ward off your feelings of dependency, you tend to become destructive. Based on denial, your reactions are sometimes fierce, impulsive, and excessive, erratic, or contradictory.

Bart Millard’s attractions are usually immediate and intense. They rise quickly to fever pitch. The story of these passions is often dramatic to excess, combining all the plot elements of a classic love tragedy: jealousy, possessiveness, agony as an erotic stimulant, etc.

Since Bart Millard was born with an emotional function expressed in a direct and fairly impulsive way, he enjoys reaching out to other people and making discoveries. An eternal teenager with his gaze riveted on the future, Bart is imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Bart Millard is a charming, seductive person who attracts affection and success. He is quite sociable and genuinely devoted to everyone’s happiness. The person who knows how to appreciate and pamper Bart Millard will find him to be a true prize. Marriage could provide Bart Millard with an entertaining lifestyle, which includes contact with prominent people or the artistic world.

As Bart Millard suggested earlier, you thrive on difficult or even lethal passions. You might have a very strong sex drive and a penchant for suffering as a redeeming value. Your tumultuous love life, a battle of leviathans, may sometimes escape from its bounds or generate disagreements which may disrupt your career. However, your powerful impulses and drive could be channeled into a creative, artistic or spiritual direction.

Bart Millard has the ardent, importunate nature of a fervent lover. Indeed, affairs of the heart are one of his main purposes in life. His personal charm and magnetism give him nearly irresistible powers of seduction, and nearly every one of his well-aimed attempts at conquest leads to the fulfillment and satisfaction of his desires. Due to his impulsiveness and impatience to initiate new encounters, his approach to members of the other sex may sometimes lack delicacy.

Bart Millard may be characterized by strong sensual and affectionate urges which drive him to seek pleasure. His need for romantic fulfillment may compel him to marry, because he also seeks the legal and social legitimacy the institution of marriage confers on an emotional bond. Indeed, the household is liable to be prosperous and even opulent, as if this offered further evidence that he had indeed achieved success. However, privately, he might be less committed to certain obligations and duties.

Bart Millard is curious, skeptical, and pragmatic. He has a shrewd, inquisitorial mind. He always tries to detect the hidden mechanisms and processes behind the phenomena he observes. As a result, he has developed an ability to detect the truth behind appearances and the cause behind the effect. Although this way of thinking is based on a certain logic, and there is evidence of structure and cohesion in his deductive approach, it is not always purely intellectual. Indeed, its sources lie in a certain empiricism, in facts which have been experienced, so it is open to improvement. For this reason, its fields of application are highly diverse, although research in the hard sciences, psychology, and metaphysics seem to be the best career choices.

Bart Millard expresses his thoughts and ideas cautiously, but with a relative lack of spontaneity. He is rather introverted and looks inside himself for the solutions to the problems he encounters in life. Because he tends to mistrust customary thought patterns, his opinion is usually highly personal.

Bart Millard’s intellectual faculties and wit are sometimes slowed down because they are turned outward. Because Bart tends to be oriented toward others, he rarely tries to communicate with them for the simple pleasure of doing so. Indeed, Bart sometimes feels misunderstood. Moreover, it seems difficult to Bart to express the complexity of his inner perceptions.