Do you know goodness?

I have been reading Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis and am about half way through the book. His style of writing is very deep and yet interesting. I consider myself a newbie book reader. Seems I have a new passion for books on Christianity and bettering life. Many chapters in this book discuss the ability to identify the difference between good and evil. The chapter I just finished reading has an awesome thought I had never had.

When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

I know many would disagree with the last statement. Surely most would see some good and some evil, but not entirely to one extreme or the other. In today’s world you could relate this to how we are desensitized to many thinks such as sex and violence on television.

3 More Days

Our church sent out requests for ppl interested in meeting with new members to help direct them into community groups. It turned out that I was talking with our receptionist about getting into a group of singles, even to just look around outside her church. She is such a nice gal that I think she needs a companion and I suggested finding one at a church rather the bar scene. So I mentioned it to the gal in an email in response to her email request from the church. She emailed me back promptly to inform me about the resources on the church website that I already knew of. Yesterday she calls me here at work and wants to meet with me to find my commitment level and to plan out this people broker deal. It is so ironic about this and the men’s mentoring ministry needing people brokers as well.

I plan to meet at the church this afternoon. I like to plan a visit with the IT ppl there after such meetings. Seems as if I do quite often! I entertained Keven the IT guy with a change in the audio streaming of the sermons online. Currently they are RealAudio and hosted off site. So he uses a ram file to redirect to it thus making it confusing for the average user to try downloading them for later user or even for burning to CD. So I suggested using mp3 or ogg formats. Of course we would keep the ra files until we get good stats in to gauge their usage. I’m hoping this works out because I so desperately want to be helping out with something computer related for the church.

What have I been up to all week? Let’s see… Friday I got the PC installed at the bosses house in the evening. Had to run to pick up my daughter from a birthday party then back to the bosses house again to finish up. She enjoyed running around their house with me. Yes running! They weren’t home so we got to have a little fun. Monday I got two more Linksys WMP11 cards and a surge protector for the bosses house. Then back out there to install the protector and also took some cable tamer tubes to cover the gaudy wires under the desks. Before going out there me and my friend Scott met at another friends new office for his Mac business. I referred him to my bosses wife as she is interested in getting a Mac. Also spent some time at another friends computer business. Looking to buy a couple Athalon PCs from him. So I was out of the office most of the day Monday. Spring fever I suppose. Tuesday I stayed put in my office just tinkering around with odds and ends cleaning up a bit. Today I have been doing about the same and making plans to upgrade our payroll system just getting familiar with the major jump in the version. Gotta play it safe you know.

Got my MySQL Cookbook in today! There were two extra surprises in the box too. Linux Server Hacks and Running Linux 4th Edition. I ordered Running Linux and Linux in a Nutshell for my brother last week online. This shipment was for placing a banner ad on our local LUG site for OReilly books. So I have a couple extra books to hand out at the next LUG meeting I guess!