“The RoseBouquet”

My computer saga continues. I STILL have not got my email working right. I’ve
been studying up on Mutt, which I am given to understand is a very powerful
mail client, but it is hardest to learn. It involves a lot of technical know
how to set up.

I got quite discouraged last Friday and was ready to scrap the whole thing and
start over again. But when I prayed about it, I calmed down and ended up doing
more research and checking this and that, and did my backups.

Then just before bedtime I did get an email from the host of my web sites, (and
all the others I’m responsible for), saying that they’d had a hard drive crash.
They would be working through the night to replace it. The sites all seemed to
be up, but suspecting that might be part of my email problem, I shut down and
went to bed, and I did OTHER stuff all weekend. I came back to a place of
trusting God to work out this email problem and putting me strides ahead in my
computer knowledge.

Yesterday morning in my devotions I learned that when God answers us with
silence it is because He has a greater miracle in mind for us. The example in
the lesson was of Mary and Martha asking for their brother Lazarus to be
healed. Jesus delayed two more days before He came. He gave them not just a
healing, but a resurrection from the dead!

I have moments when I’m inclined to think, “Just give me what I’m asking for!”
Mostly though, I’m trying to hold out for whatever the larger miracle is that
the Lord has in mind for me in all of this.

Tomorrow we’ll go to the airport to pickup my niece, Jalise, and her one year
old daughter, Elise. I’m prepared to set aside my “work” to enjoy what days we
can have together. If we spend time at this computer, it is most likely going to
be working with photos, and seeing what we can do with my new graphics programs.

You understand now, don’t you, why this blog entry or issue is rather skimpy?

Normally, I don’t beg for a lot of prayers for myself. But if you’d send up one
on my behalf, to speed things along here to a smoothly working email system, I
would be truly very grateful.

Rosalind, a subscriber in India, wrote last week with a prayer on my behalf,
and I treasure that so much! Thank you!