What’s good for the soul isn’t always good for the body.
It’s likely that most of us have heard of soul food, normally the picture of mac and cheese, fried chicken, and BBQ ribs come to mind. But what is soul food really?
The late Terry A. Davis once said, “it’s more important to save your soul than to save your body.”, it was his analogy for eating soul food, something that nourishes the soul, even if it’s not good for the body.
We live in a time where people value their bodies, they count each calorie, exercise, obsess about weight goals, and follow beauty trends like a religion, but at the same time we live in a time where the most mental illness, anxiety, depression and other disturbances occur. People have focused too much on the physical, and not enough on the spiritual I.e the soul.
We often neglect our souls, they go un-nourished, they receive no soul food. Soul food is not necessarily always unhealthy, but often it is, it’s something that brings more nourishment to the spirit than the body: ice-cream, chocolate, coke, burgers. Whatever it might be, eating it will make your soul jump for joy.
And at the end of the day, I do feel, it is more important to save your soul, than to save your body.
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