An Apple a Day...

I like to form habits if you haven't noticed yet.
But not just habits for habits' sake,
but i want to form healthy habits.
I want to exercise.
I want to eat right.
I want to take care of myself.
This is difficult.
Mainly because of Taco Bell and Coke.
And i get busy and tired and lazy and distracted.
And my self-motivation ceases to exist.
But, i want to be a healthy person
because i realize a day will come when my body will slow down
and the weight will pick up
and my body wont perform the way it does now.
So, i have come up with a solution: Buy Apples.
Apples will solve all of my problems, and here's why:
1. They are healthy.
I want to be healthy, so i buy apples, and they are delicious
red delicious to be exact.
They make for a great snack alternative and i get my daily serving of fruit
Win/Win.
2. When i eat apples, i have to immediately floss.
Nothing is as a (do i use "a" or "an" here?) unique irritation as apple skin entangled in my teeth.
And so, one healthy habit leads to another.
Apples pay it forward.
Thus, my healthiness will be achieved by adding apples to my diet and cleansing my teeth one core at a time.
And the old saying is true: An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Discipleship from Democracy

"The people always will what is good, but by themselves they do not always discern it.
The general will is always rightful, but the judgment which guides it is not always enlightened.
It must be brought to see things as they are,and sometimes as they should be seen;
It must be shown the good path which it is seeking, and secured against seduction by the desires of the individuals;
it must be given a sense of situation and season,
so as to weigh immediate and tangible advantages against distant and hidden evils.
Individuals see the good and reject it; the public desires the good but does not see it.
Both equally need guidance.
Individuals must be obliged to subordinate their will to their reason;
the public must be taught to recognize what it desires."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

I believe the church has always and will continue to exist as a monarchy.
Yet aren't Rousseau's words against the French Monarchy an accurate portrayal of life in the church?

"Individuals see the good and reject it."
This is humanity's theme.
Paul's outcry.
Identification with morality without obedience to it.
And so we combine our efforts to fulfill the good (Israel, the church, etc.).
And we desire morality.
"The public desires the good but does not see it."
This is the church's identity.
The anthem of western religion.
The church without vision.
Stagnation.

And we are trapped in an enigma:
A morality with no people fails.
A people with no direction fails morality.
And morality with direction is disputed.
America.