Another One Bites The Dust

So, this is day 4 of our 365 days and last night our laptop bit the dust!!! Well, it might come back to life… it is at the repair shop. Who knows.

So, how the heck do you keep a blog updated with no computer?!?! That’s exactly what we are wondering! For now I’m using my phone with spotty wifi service…and if need be we will trudge through rain, snow, and hail to keep posting! (Or just go to the library.)

So why does it seem like you always get kicked while your already down? I’m not just talking about the computer… since we set off on our quest, strange things keep happening. Our car died, and is sitting waiting for the time and money to repair it… our furnace needs fixed, it keeps heating the house up to 73 and Michael goes down and bangs a couple pipes each night which seems to set it straight till the next day. I’ve gone through 3 phones because they keep locking up. And multiple other little things.

These things, aren’t much in and of themselves but stacked up one after the other, day after day it tends to break you. They just pick away at your resolve, your joy and determination…till you want to give up!

And so my post today is about PERSEVERANCE!!!! And too often when the going gets tough we throw in the towel instead of putting our heads down, gritting our teeth and charging forward. Forward into the mess, the foggy confusion, the unknown!

It makes me think of the scene often replayed in Lord of the Rings… one of the characters is making one last heroic effort before they will most seemingly die. They charge forward screaming, waving their sword frantically, hair flying, eyes ablaze with determination. And then, at the last moment…they are of all things rescued! But not without a few bumps and bruises. And a wiser look in their eyes. They faced their fears, the challenge, the ‘resistance’ head on and won!

This is how I want to approach hardship…or ‘the resistance’ as some call it. Those things that are thrown at us to try to discourage us, get us off track and into throw us into despair. When we are discouraged…we are exactly what the word states- we loose our courage. We give up. And my voice, the voice I have been created to use for good goes quiet. When I  give up the battle is over and I am not the victor. I have not come out on the other side. I have not come away with a wonderful story to tell, of trials and hardships and how I overcame them.

Therefore, I declare though computer-less we will not be thwarted! We will not be taken out…we will PERSEVERE …we will go on!!!!!!