Codes
My new site has its advantages. It will allow me a great deal more flexibility to do some of the things I want to do. However, it also has its disadvantages. It’s much more complex to manage for one so uninitiated in html codes as I am. For example, after I transferred all the posts from my Blogger site to this one, the words no longer wrapped around the pictures. It was maddening. I spent several hours trying to figure out the right html code to make it wrap. As you can see, I was finally successful! Hooray! (I take life’s joys wherever I can find them.) The answer lay in a simple two-word code separated by a colon. The key was finding those key words and inserting it into the right line of code.
We are a society full of quick answer codes. Everything in your life will be better if you: stop drinking, trust Jesus, listen to Oprah, change spouses, or get a new job. But which “code” is the right one to fix our lives? The difficulty is finding the right code and inserting it into the correct place in our lives. I tried numerous code changes during those hours of frustration with my web site. The large majority of things I tried did nothing, they had no affect at all. Other insertions I tried, however, made things dramatically worse. I kept telling myself, “Other people have figured this out. Surely, I can too.”
Much of life is trial and error. We can often see the things that need changing in our lives, but don’t really have a clue how to fix them. So we go about the frustrating task of trying one thing after another–somewhat like the preacher in Ecclesiastes who tries one thing after another to find happiness. Most of the things we try don’t work. Other things we try, make our lives worse. Often, the answer is something simple–a new perspective, dropping a destructive habit, or learning to trust others. However, it may take a life time to discover that key element. Unfortunately, some of us never figure out how to bring needed change in our lives. Some of us simply give up and stop trying. There are too many “codes,” too many quick fixes to try. Perhaps the successful life is not the rare one that happens upon the right code combination. Perhaps it is the one that finds joy in the search. When we do find the right “codes” a wonderful transformation takes place that makes the search worthwhile.
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