Last night's blog was cancelled due to technical difficulties. My newly repaired computer failed to work properly. This is especially painful due to complete lack of skill when it comes to making it work better. Point and click is about my limit when it comes to using this machine. There are tons of things that most people can do with computers that are long past by ability. Technology is one of those things that some people really enjoy. People like that are speaking a foreign language to me. I am very content with my lack of knowledge in this area. My motto is if it ain't broke just give me a minute. Lots of people have the skill to repair this machine. Only a few of us can damage one in such creative methods.

What is just as painful is the fact my mind did have a decent idea for writing. I was actually going to aim for creativity in my post. One of the good things about writing consistently is you can recognize how often your words are repeated in similar ways. This is no compliment to what is said here. Much of the nearly 450 blog entries bear the familiarity of sameness. There is an opening thought which comes from daily experience. We then usually try to make a spiritual point about the event. The conclusion aims to be clever even if that isn't generally within my personality makeup. But we were going to aim for different last night. Perhaps my computer read my mind while deciding to put a stop to that. I can be a little leery of these things ever since seeing the carnage done by HAL in Space Odyssey 2001.

So it seems that we are left to mourn the momentary inspiration lost in the technological failures of yesterday. Life has a way of doing that to you. Life happens. Once you get that fact down then the rest of your journey is far easier to accept. Those of us who are believers cannot escape this truth. Maybe this is one of the reasons we also lose our spark of faith. We believe in the divine ideal but keep having to move around in the mundane parts of our existence. Our songs speak of a great day coming when God will make all things right. Yet we can wonder at all of the things going wrong in our world. We figure out that no one can really provide us with a quick fix for any of this. And soon our eagerness for the eternal becomes snuffed out with the frustrations common to all.

Just remember that even the most serious of disciples live in this present age. Also never forget that beyond all we see remains the bigness of God. He isn't interested in fixing up our life like a broken computer. Our path to maturity requires patience in His grace. It demands we become better than we are because His truth is making us into His image. This is not at all for the weak of heart. Courage is never the absence of difficulty but it always grows while we look to God who protects that eternal part of our being in the painful times. He is the real source of our spark. He is the One who offers creativity in our journey. He was in control last night when this machine did not cooperate. He is just as much in control this evening when it does. That is and always will be the good news.

Bro. Trey