Paradise's Parking Lot

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone?

While they haven't exactly paved paradise, I got a taste of just how good I've got it this past weekend.

I've never realized how much I rely on my computer and use it each and every day until the existence of it was threatened this weekend.  All of my school work from college is on this bad boy.  Applications that I take for granted every day, like Word, and new ones that I love playing with, like Photoshop, were suddenly inaccessible.  The "experts" told me to brace myself as it looked like everything would be lost forever.

Here come the bulldozers, dump trucks and cement pourers.  I was about to get my parking lot.

I worried about it, stressed about it, and couldn't do anything else until I knew for sure the status of my aluminum baby.  Sam reminded me that worrying about it wouldn't do me any good and that God already knew the outcome of the situation.  He was right.

I was ready to call the shots, cut down the trees, pave the slab and paint the lines--what I really needed to do was give it to Him.  We're ones to so quickly diagnose the problem and say there's no hope.  Our God is one who exemplifies hope in His very being.  The sun itself gives us hope that not every day will be filled with rain.

In the end, there was no need to pave over paradise.  My computer was fixed, restored to full working order and is back to being treated like a hallowed object.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD--now and always. Psalm 131:3

Father, thank you for showing me though technology how you restore.  Thank you for restoring my heart to you.  Thank you for taking the time to mend me, heal me and bring me back to you instead of just leaving me out for dead.  Thank you for Sam and how he reminds me to let you have my life and all that I encounter.  Thank you for family, fluffy puppies, fishing line and coveralls.  Thank you for the plan that you have for me and taking the time to work out all the details.  Help me to trust you with them and seek you as I go through each and every day.  How I love you.