Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Hope Rocks: A Lesson in Letting Go

htthttpFor the last year I’ve been upset because my notebook computer has been glitching, and freezing, and taking forever to start up. I mainly use it to stay in touch with my family and friends on facebook—checking out what interests them, and sharing what interesting things I’ve found. I also play games and write my first drafts on it. That frees up our PC for my business and John’s art business stuff. It also limits us from getting a computer virus on the PC.


Fed up, last week I took the notebook into have diagnostic run on it and the news was bad—bad sectors, I would need a new hard-drive and then have to reprogram it. When we counted up the cost to do this, it made more sense to buy a new one. So I found one for a great price and bought it through E-bates, a program my sister told me about that gives you cash back if you use their website. Then John mentioned a friend of ours might want the other computer, because he likes to fix them and he doesn’t have a notebook. We picked up the old one, and I started removing personal stuff and non-essential programs to get it ready to send to our friend. Wouldn’t you know it, after removing everything and restarting the computer, it worked just fine! At first I wanted to kick myself for wasting money on a new one, but today I had an Ah Ha moment—if I hadn’t been willing to give it away I never would have deleted all the programs that were causing the conflict! Isn’t that like our life, we hold on to our problems, fret about them, complain about them, not willing to let go and give them to God who can clean us up, fix us and make us like new….


Here’s a little bit of hope for you: Next time your “heart-drive” is glitching, freezing up and not wanting to work right; give it away to God and other people and enjoy the blessing of a new one.

Hope rocks :-)




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2 comments:

Lille Diane said...

What a powerful message! It's so true when we let go of things; anger, the past, fear, resentment...oh the list can go on and on. Then God can fill the hole up with abundance in every area of our lives.

I know you'd been having problems in the past with your puter, so I believe this will set you free to enjoy more wonderful adventures. I LOVE your Hope rock!! Please let me know what you did with it and if you placed it in your shop or where??

Thank you, my dear, dear friend. Thank you for faithfully praying for me. I'm 50 feet tall now because of your love!

Lillian Robinson said...

Wow! Super analogy. Yes, we lay things on the alter, feel better, then pick them back up when we leave. If we just give it to God, life is so much easier!