“The RoseBouquet”

My apologies for being a day late. I thought I had everything restored and set up to work smoothly last Friday, but had made a mistake, so my computer system crashed again this week Tuesday morning. This time I believe I have it right. At last!

However, I had Board Minutes to type up, and I’d promised the evening to work on another mission’s site, so all I could do was put off this RoseBouquet issue until this morning.

I had begun my renovational work on the Sharing Library section of my site, Ruthes-SecretRoses.com. Whatever I didn’t upload to the site is lost and I’ll have to start that over again.

But hey, I’m grateful that I didn’t get too many days’ work done before this crash on Tues/Wed. I DID get two publications completed and sent off after midnight on Monday of last week - before that crash. Then, this Monday I got a number of pages revised, updated and uploaded by midnight - again before the crash. What marvelous timing! What grace of
God in all that!

Tuesday morning when programs were seizing up on me, I still managed to check over the proof of the Reflections (a desktop design job for Western Tract Mission), and get word back to the printer on three corrections to make.

I gave up yesterday to TRY to fix things, and then install and re-start the Install of my SuSE until I learned that I MUST set the mnt points in the partitions. Last week they looked right to me, so I just went to next without checking into that. The system tried to stuff everything into the root partition, and 3 GB was just too small. No wonder I got error messages saying I had run out of space.

I am rather pleased that I remembered NOT to format the /home and /local partitions, which saved all the data I’d re-installed there last Friday. I only lost the work from Friday to this Tuesday morning, except for what I managed to send off or upload to the sites.

I groan as loudly as anyone else when a crash happens, but when I stop to look things over objectively, I see that God’s Hand is still with me, and protecting me in the midst of it all.

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day. I’ve had some good article ideas for the Ruthe’s Roses section, but none exactly on that topic. I’ve not had time to develop them in full, but will share some thoughts on time and God’s timelessness.

Do use tomorrow - and every day - to remember well and wisely, and to entrust the memories that hurt to the Heavenly Father. He handles them kindly and can give you a garment of praise to wear instead, if your memories are rough and painful.