Spiritual Food from Soul Calibur IV

August 23, 2008

You don’t even have to buy this game much less play it – just ask yourself the question that is the slogan on the advertisement:

What’s within your soul?

This is such a cool question - because it can and should be asked of each of us and the institutions we belong to.

Everyone has four aspects to the self.

Physical or Body Intellectual or Mind Emotional or Feelings Spiritual or Soul

Bodies are shaped by what we eat and how we exercise (or not) Right now my physical self is impacted by the the fact that I am hungry and haven’t started dinner and the fact that I missed my exercise today.

Minds are shaped by what we put into them, too. Haven’t you played BrainAge2 or started doing crossword puzzles to keep your mind fit? My mind is shaped by my curiosity and all the mysteries I read.

Our Emotional selves need friends and connections so we don’t get isolated and lonely. Aren’t you grateful for your family, friends, and pets? I don’t know where I would be without family. And all of us agree that Sheba, our 140 lb Newfoundland dog, is a great therapist.

Souls need…what?
I am not the first to ask this, people have talked about it from the beginning of time. Most have concluded that our souls need to worship. And that need is so strong that we will worship even when we think we are not. The answer to What’s within your soul? is found in your answer to the second important question:

What do you worship?

The thing or things you worship are the things in your life that you put above everything else. Theologian Paul Tillich called those things our “ultimate concerns”. What are those things for you? Work, family, music, money, football, church, the way things used to be…

What do you put above everything else in your life?

What do you worship?

What’s within your soul?