Saturday, June 04, 2005

Email: The examined life [SD]

I am glad you are finding relief in such physical relaxation techniques. See what happens even to Christians when we do not pay attention to our bodies and emotions? We are body, mind and spirit, and it borders on Pelagianism to act as if only the spirit matters, not the body or the emotions. It is not enough to know what we are supposed to do, or to have the best intentions or even faith (practically speaking); we can't always accomplish the goal without knowing how to do it. That's the difference (ecclesiastically speaking) between preaching and discipleship.

Yes, setting up Quicken for a business would require that you have the business version or at least the business set of categories. They used to be included but I guess now they make you buy one version or the other -- or both, if you buy the "wrong" version at first. (This is largely why I went into computer consulting back in 1986, by the way: to tell people what they needed before they spent money on the wrong things.)

I think if you have to ask the question "What is happiness? Where does one find it?" then, yes, you need to learn how to find the simple answers for what makes you smile. It is not that hard; don't make it more complicated than it should be. Give yourself permission to be happy, and rue the circumstances that colluded to lead you away from the simple joys.

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