Ready. Set. Write.
My laptop just celebrated it's fifth birthday, which is ancient for a Windows laptop. After the acquisition of my iPad last Fall, my laptop has been used very little, so having a soon-to-be obsolete laptop wasn't that distressing....until I started school July 1.
In my MBA program, I have to submit assignments online and although the internet surfing still works (albeit via Safari on a Windows system), using the Office applications and even the USB port is troublesome. It's broken and I'm in denial. Microsoft Word crashes every time I save a document...and the other night it simply locked up my laptop to the point of restart. Even the USB port is getting persnickety. I save all my work on a flash drive (for the reasons stated earlier) yet even the ports are broken and tired. My cheap self now needs to invest in a laptop so I can be equipped for this journey of school.
Silly me grieves over broken things like this. I bought this laptop soon after I bought my last car, Bluebelle, which I love. It was a tough purchase because it seemed everything was broken and needed replacing. Now, my car is going strong, and my laptop needs to be put to rest. Nothing I can do can fix the broken.
I'm so thankful that I can come to my Creator broken and know that He won't give up on me. I may be broken, battered, scarred and discouraged, but He makes all things new. When I crash, He protects me. When I lock up, He surrounds me with his arms and I relax in the comfort of His Love. And when I simply can't plug in to be recharged, His Holy Spirit intercedes for me in ways and words I can't express.
Being broken doesn't mean I'm banished. I'm loved.
3 comments:
That last line is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
I'm dropping in from FMF--I have no idea how to find the normal 'last person to post before you did' when it's on Facebook, so I'm randomly dropping in all over :). I love the last line. Isn't it funny how God uses our brokenness more than our wholeness to reach out to other people?
Beautiful! What an interesting comparison, love it! I too get sentimental over things like that; I still own my laptop from college and it's 10 years old. =) The ethernet and phone cord jacks are broken, the CD drive doesn't work, it's been reformatted more times than I care to recall, but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. Thanks for sharing!
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