As I write this today in the throes of a bad cold, my chosen super powers involve Purell. But as Reverend Mother reminds us, Halloween is just around the corner and it's a good time to fantacize about which super powers we'd like to claim.Over the summer on sabbatical, when we were traveling the hills of Jordan and the streets of Turkey, I longed for a super power that let me speak the native language wherever I happened to be. Halloween Costume Idea: Rosetta Stone Girl.
In ministry, I would occasionally like to have super powers involving:
- the ability to say just the right thing in high tension moments
- the ability to convince people to see and use their God-given gifts for good
- the ability to melt hardened hearts.
Actually there have been moments when I've prayed for God to give me these things and the Spirit actually made it possible. But it's not something I can do at will or wearing a cape.
So, just a few weeks into the busy fall schedule, what super powers would make your life easier?
Photo of Fantomah, the first female superhero, by Barney Flagg (aka Fletcher Hanks) 1941
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3 comments:
You have some brilliant wishes for super powers. I'd like the energy to outlast a toddler some days...and some sort of thing to dash bitterness to less than seeds--to smithereens as my dad used to say--b/c it rises up in myself and others at the strangest times. Sometimes, like you say, with the Spirit it is surmountable, and other times I see humanness win.
Certainly fun on Friday. Although I am just an amateur preacher (currently in Seminary) for Ascension Sunday I wore my Spiderman shirt to preach and talked about how Jesus is and is not a superhero. Gets right to the heart of the theodicy problem does it not. Shirt was a big hit in the Children's time, let me tell you.
...the ability to get everything done in a given day, and to sleep well at the end of it. Then again, that wouldn't be a superpower, that would be a miracle.
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