The Missing Link

A rare occurence has been taking place at Chaucer Ct--the home of Beth and Jaime (I almost typed Grubbs as both our last name, no wonder the neighbors give me weird stares when I leave...hmmm). It just so happens that we both have experienced laptop issues at the same time. My charging cord stopped working (okay, the tip broke off after I let my computer slip off my bed one time too many at night), Beth isn't quite sure what happened to her cord...it's a mystery!

So for the past two weeks, neither one of us have been able to be online at home. The first few days, I was going nuts! It drove me insane to not be able to blog, check blogs, check my email, read the news, check the weather and most obviously, peruse facebook. I didn't realize how much time I spent online until I couldn't be online at all. There were moments where I thought about asking the neighbors permission to hop on their computers, and I even thought about stopping at the Pine Richland library one night to read people.com. It was in that moment when I realized something very pathetic. Me not having access to my laptop for two weeks bothered me. More than it probably should.

Even worse, I thought, if only I had the same determination and desparation to read my bible daily. Would I even notice if my bible was missing from my room? If it was, would I go to desperate measures to find another as soon as possible?! The lack of a laptop is not something tragic, but the lack of wisdom and learning my bible provides is. It's funny how my priorities can be so out of wack, or offline if you will (pun intended).

So, as always, God used whatever it took to teach me a lesson. This is one that I better permanently download.