I thought I was on a roll. I thought I was on God’s ‘accelerated’ path. Within a year I’d published 3 books, started a blog and started three more books. I was just breezing along and then Bam! My hard drive fried. Well not mine but rather my computers. I have to admit I didn’t know how to react. I was like a deer staring into headlights. It was as if I’d lost my job all over again. My day revolved around my computer. I even enrolled in online studies. I was lost. How could I write without a computer? Was God telling me I shouldn’t write? Was He closing yet another door? I moped around the house. Oh I cooked and cleaned but internally I was moping. Then, I actually felt the Lord smile upon me as He asked “How would you advise your nieces and nephews to respond to a situation like this?” Well that gave me something to think about. I would advise them to pray about it. I’d advise them to be certain that their destination was really where the Lord wanted them to go. And if it was, I’d advise them to view this as a detour> A detour is not the end of the journey it’s just a chance to take in some different scenery and build a little character. And if they were headed to the wrong place they should ask God to give them a revelation about where they should be going instead. Taking your own advice is not easy but I did it. I prayed. I prayed. And then I prayed some more. Then I heard Robert Morris explain that the dream is not the destiny – it’s just the motivation to get you there. Well, I thought, that’s all well and good but my dream was writing. That night I dreamed about computers. Not surprising, ‘huh? The next morning I pulled a HP with a blown motherboard out of the closet and exchanged its hard drive for the Dell blown one! Well the operating systems are different, not all the drives are compatible and I’ve lost all the data for the books I was working on but I’m writing! I’m not sure that I appreciate the scenery but I am sure that it’s just a detour.
crystallennon 