this is a short post... i am busy reading Philip Yancey's book called Soul Survivor and loving it... it is one of those books that you really have to read slowly and absorb because on every page there are concepts that seem worth a full days thought... kinda like this one:
"Mahatma Gandhi knew that his only moral power for others came from what he had already mastered himself. Once, a woman in his village brought her son and asked [Mahatma] to tell the child to stop eating sugar because it was bad for him. She said the child would not listen to her but he would listen to Gandhi. 'Bring the boy back in a week and I will tell him,' said Gandhi. A week later the woman returned with her son. Gandhi took the boy in his arms and told him not to eat any sugar, then bid them both goodbye. The mother lingered behind and asked, 'Bapu, why did you have to wait a week? Could you not have told him last week?' 'No,' he replied. 'Last week I myself was eating sugar.'
the whole chapter is really amazing and i hope to get around to blogging a bit more about Gandhi and his attitudes towards life that seem so remarkably close to the value system the Bible teaches.
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