In the uncertainties, we can be certain <3
I was talking to a friend at church last Sunday and she mentioned to me that she doesn’t get my blogs anymore and wasn’t sure what happened. As we tried to figure out the problem, I asked how she had seen them in the past – Facebook? The Friday Email list?
No, it had come every day to her inbox when I posted, so it was clear she had signed up for the website at some point. I explained to her that sometimes, because it is a list email from a third party, computers flag it as spam and it goes to the junk.
She laughed and said she wished it would do that for all the store advertisements she gets and doesn’t want and not the email she does read.
So. True.
We get a lot of things we don’t want with all this modern technology and often lose things we wanted to keep.
Every so often, my computer alerts me to an upgrade. The most recent one has replaced whatever my background picture was before with some kind of aerial shot of mountains and maybe a vineyard and some dirt roads. There appears to me an RV set up off to the left tucked amount the trees.
That’s great.
But somewhat alarming as it seems to pan for a while before it settles on this particular shot. Like it is doing a slow drone hover and then stops for a freeze frame. Kind of creepy.
Also as I have had to upgrade to newer computers over the years, some of my photos and filed haven’t transferred to the new computer. They are stored somewhere on flash drives and external hard drives and even, gasp…SD cards.
All of these are extremely difficult for me to navigate and most likely aren’t compatible with the newer programs and software.
Our money, photos, communications, and often calendar and address book are all in the precarious possession of the digital world.
This is a source of stress to me. A silent stress that sits on the back burner and simmers until something doesn’t go right in my daily dealings with our information needed to function and then the pot boils over.
But even before that mess, there is always the awareness of that stew pot as I juggle life on all the burners near the front.
Sigh.
Life on planet earth.
Yesterday I listened to a really good sermon about abiding in Christ. The speaker used an acronym for ABIDE.
A – attached; when we receive Christ we are attached to Him
B – blessing; He blesses us
I – intimate; He knows us better than we know ourselves
D – discipline; He prunes us so that what is dead is removed and what is alive will bear more fruit
E – esteemed; Jesus redeems us and lifts us up to be with Him
This is so much more assuring and permanent than the worries of this world.
This is the place from which we manage the front burner and deal with the simmering pot on the back and clean up the messes when it boils over.
So grateful.
Blessings <3