Does waking up at 4 am count as my discipline for the day? I am always moved by Jocko Willink's mantra, "Discipline equals freedom." We must take on some limitations some committed actions in order to have the capacity to do what we want. This is perhaps taking us far afield from what Aristotle was saying this morning but perhaps it is precisely a lack of discipline which makes the avaricious, the sensual, and the ambitious such bad students of moral philosophy, that is, makes them identify happiness with the wrong activity?
When the practice of the faith become as so many chains, weighing us down rather than lifting us up, it can be useful to recall the bare minimum to be a practicing Catholic.
If we have expressed our anxiety to God and asked Him to weave it into His provident design, and yet still worry, do we sin for lack of trust in Him?
