Do you have a soul mate? How does socio-economic class, culture, and religious belief affect the way you answer that question? Jeanene Reese’s Spotlight asked you to choose: Do you believe God’s will is a precise plan for your life, or is it more of a path with multiple possibilities? How you answer that question is likely related to how you answered the first.
In the video below, Australian comedian Tim Minchin sings “If I Didn’t Have You,” a song that satirizes the whole notion of having a soul mate. Watch the video and reflect on the questions below.
How do you respond to Minchin’s song? Is he just unromantic? Is he an atheist who refuses to acknowledge that God does, in fact, have a person picked out for each one of us?
Is he right? If so, what does that mean for our understanding of God’s will in our lives?
(Oh, and what was your favorite line?)
(NB: Special thanks to Cornerstone teacher Kayla Hewitt for finding and sharing this video.)
2 responses to ““If I Didn’t Have You””
I think it’s a very powerful song. It’s also very funny. It’s also very serious. He is romantic and unrimantic. He goes back and forth. I like the song. It’s very cool to listen to. God does have a person for everyone. It’s just really hard to find that person. It’s not easy to find the one person for you. The thing is you will never know who the one is. You also don’t know when your going to meet the one. It’s a part of gods will. God will eventually put a person In your life and you will have to chose whether to accept it or not. God helps most people to get married. God binds two people together for marriage. It’s part of being a Christian. Christians tend to marry christains. Just like Jews marry Jews or Muslims marry Muslims. It’s all part of life that god creates and puts together through his will.
I agree with Chase saying that our soul mates are a part of God’s will and His ability and willingness to put them in our life when we need them and when He thinks it is best. I think that we have soul mates but not just one. Although we might think there will ever only b one person for us, there may be one or two more. If you think o when someone’s husband or wife dies, that can’t mean that they will then forever be alone, especially those who get remarried or find love again, not saying that is always the situation and it really does determine on the person itself and what God thinks they need, because it’s not the same situation for everybody.