I am certainly one who genuinely adores soul food, but today’s meditation is not about that kind of food.
In every individual is a kind and gentle soul. Each of us is born with an ingrained goodness of spirit, placed there by God.
The problem is that world begins to build a shell around that gentleness right after birth and it gets thicker year after year. Worldly concerns, tragedy, and the mere crush of demands and noise feed the shell, and we don’t do what we need to feed the gentle soul encased inside. Other individuals hardened by years and bad experiences feed and harden the shell as well.
We each are called to rediscover that soul and gentle spirit within each and every one of us. The food that accomplishes our purpose is not more money, more possessions, or worldly acclaim.
We feed our soul with prayer, meditation, silence, thought, and service. None of this “soul food’ costs a dime, and yet the recovery of one’s gentleness makes us richer than King Solomon.
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