Supremacy

Ah... so many good things today! Most recently, an incredibly tasty green curry chicken dinner with Trade Aid dark chocolate for dessert (so rich that even I can only eat 2 pieces and I'm done!). My head is just swimming with deep and ever meaningful tidbits! - where to start?!

I was watching The Bourne Supremacy yesterday and in one of the interviews in the special features, Karl Urban talked about his character who had hardly any lines in the entire movie. The way he described how he approached the character has stuck with me - he said:

"An ounce of behaviour is worth a pound of words."

Very similar to St Francis of Assisi who said:

"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."

Then I started today with an interesting thought from the Experiencing God bible study:

Watch to see where God is working and join Him.

I realised that I had been approaching each day with the mentality that God would use me but that for some reason I kind of had a tunnel vision approach to it all - you know, me versus the world! What hit me after reading this was what a privilege it actually is to join God in His work. Simple but true - no?

And then to top it all off, an officer in one of our classes today shared how instead of asking how someone was, she would always ask: "How's your soul?" because someone once asked it of her. How's your soul?! It hit me like a brick wall! ...How is my soul?... It took me ages before I could even answer. How easily do we sing the words of It Is Well With My Soul without even considering how we are actually feeling? Try it on someone this week but be prepared - you won't get a flippant answer because this is a question that makes you think!

By the way... how is your soul?