Soul mate

A leader of mine once told me a story that a husband was an engineer and his wife wasn't. She wasn't even of any discipline related to the sciences so she wasn't quite useful when the husband needed ideas for his work.

But one day, my leader told me, the husband was casually just discussing his work with his wife - not really hoping for any idea tangible, not to speak of remarkable. But then...wait. Before I tell you what happened, let me give you a little background.

When two or more people form a team, there is usually a synergy created as a result of that relationship. Napoleon Hill said it is almost like another being is created as a result of the union between these persons coming together to form a team. (This union can be attributed to an intercourse achieved by the spirits and souls of these persons coming together - formed by a common set of values and beliefs. When they meet together in fellowship, sharing ideas, if they are together in spirit and soul, it is like a new human is created.)

Now, the espousal relationship is the strongest and most powerful of all relationships because it is the only relationship where spirit and soul achieve synergy not only through shared values and beliefs but also through fluid and flesh. And God himself desires to stamp his approval of such a union, so He would do it in any way to prove His point. Now, back to our story.

While the husband was speaking, his wife said something profound about her husband's engineering problem. She knew nothing about how intelligent her statement was and her husband was taken aback by it. He realized that she had given him the solution to his engineering problem.

Interpretation: my leader told me that the husband had taken for granted that his wife was his soul mate, and beyond being a help-meet in other obvious and expected areas of his life, his wife was also relevant in the areas he might not deem important or consider her necessary because of her intellectual capacity or otherwise. And God inspired his wife that day to prove a point to him, the husband.

The moral of the story is: the relationship we have with some of our team mates or colleagues might not be as deep as that of a nuptial kind, but they can equally be regarded as soul-, destiny-, or vision-mates. And when we neglect or take them for granted in one way or the other, life has its prerogative to impress on us the point of their importance and relevance.