An Easter Break

Jen and I have had some time to relax some lately. It's been great!

Jen's birthday was the 5th, so I took her to a show the week before in Baton Rouge. She had been wanting to see a Cirque du Soliel show for quite some time, and I found out about a show on the road. DELIRIUM was quite spectacular.

Later that night, Jen let me in on a secret: she had purchased tickets to the Houston Dynamo's home opener. We watched a great match between the Dynamo and the LA Galaxy (future home to David Beckham). They tied up 0-0, but it was a fun match, none-the-less.

While on this little weekend jaunt, I've had some time to do some reading. I'd like to share a couple things with those persistent enough to read:

First, from J.P. Moreland's Love Your God With All Your Mind:
From Old Testament times and ancient Greece until [the 20th] century, the good life was widely understood to mean a life of intellectual and moral virtue. The good life is the life of ideal human functioning according to the nature that God Himself gave to us...Happiness was understood as a life of virtue, and the successful person was one who knew how to live life well according to whatwe are by nature due to the creative design of God. When the Declaration of Independence says we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them the right to pursue happiness, it is referring to virtue and character. So understood, happiness involves suffering, endurance, and patience because these are important means to becoming a good person who lives the good life. (p. 35)

Second, from Ulrich Bech's.... I'll finish this post shortly