Question Two of Four

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How did you use your body?

This is a very interesting one. While a typical American does many things with their body every day, we don't always think of "how" it is used. We think of how we dress it. What we put in it when we eat. What we put on it. But not what we did with it.

However, if you think of the human body as a Temple, then this question takes on new meaning, new dimensions and new expressions...

Did you use your body to:

Shield another?
Share another's pain?
Give strength to another?
Lift another?

Did you use your Chi to:

Heal another?
Feed another?
Kiss another?

Did you use your Spirit to:

Encourage another?
Caress another?
Inspire another?
Shelter another?

3/7ths

AS there are seven layers of Atmosphere to the earth, there are seven Heavens and seven dimensions, there are surely seven layers to the body. And while I can only think of three layers: Physical, Chi and Spirit, I am certain that is simply a failing on my part and more time is needed to discover the others. Perhaps prayer and sexuality are others?

And when one considers the beauty of such a question: "What did you do with your body," then one can't forget the miracles of human added developments on top of Divine.

Did you Skydive?
Did you Run with shoes?
Did you go Surfing?
Did you go Bungee Jumping?
Read a book?
Play Frisbee with your children?

While at first glance these may seem unimportant to Heaven, they too are important - even the Angels fly. And flying is a form of liberation of the spirit.

Even Sufi's spin and spinning is a form of meditation...
Even police run and running is a form of protection...
Even military go bungee jumping and this is a form of peacekeeping...
Even book reading can be a form of prayer as when one reads the Psalms...
Even Frisbee playing can be a form of laughter which lightens the Heart and Shares the Soul...

And as much as we all think of our vices and what we do wrong, the question really is asking for the positive:

What did you do with your body?

Did you give your wife a child?
Did you give your Heart with thought-filled Love?
Did you provide an example?
Did you speak with kindness and compassion?

What did You do with your body?