For the little things...

I just want to cease this opportunity to thank God for the little things. I may not remember all the wonders that operate in my small life but I want to acknowledge him for the little things. Last week my laptop started acting up. It’s 3 years old and I haven’t really used it in over a year. I usually have a work laptop so I just used it as back up. I noticed it’s been slow and it was suggested it has a memory issue. But I have been hanging on believing that when I finally get to go on my holiday, I will buy a new one for half the price. So I had been keeping my fingers crossed on it, praying knowing fully well it’s on its last legs.

Then as if the enemy was near by, it starts to act up even more. After fifteen minutes it freezes and I have to reboot. After the third time it happens I realize that this is going to be the new routine. Arrrrrrrgh! I begin to save every minute knowing that it would freeze at any moment. I begin to write my emails in word so that at least when it freezes the auto recovery would pick it up instead of it disappearing into oblivion. I have had to adjust to the new way of using the laptop. I am managing pretty well with the new routine but my thoughts are not so much on me but on what will happen when it freezes in front of a client during a presentation. And lo and behold it does! Right in the middle of my presentation, so I have to stop and talk some more before I acknowledge that it has frozen and that I have to reboot it. I think to myself, what next? Well, I reboot and we continue. And all the while I am just praying that 15 minutes drag, as I prepare for the next freeze. Since I was facilitating the session, I decide to continue the session using the flipchart, that way I don’t have to worry about the laptop freezing. Phew! That was on Friday and I worked with the laptop rebooting routine till I began rebooting every 10 minutes no longer waiting for the 15 minute freeze point. Still in a dilemma of whether or not to bear it for 1 month before I travel, I begin to hit the laptop hoping that it’s a hardware problem and that the hitting will somehow hit something back into place. My dear when you are desperate you will try anything.

Then on Sunday, something weird happens. I have Windows updates that are waiting to be installed. The icon is glaring at me on the toolbar at the right hand corner of the screen. For what it’s worth I click on it and it begins to install updates. When it completes the installation, I reboot. When it reboots, something interesting comes up. A strange icon appears on the right hand corner, I click on it and it is called ‘Malicious Software’ I read the description and it says it identifies and removes malicious software. I run the program and voila! It finds a huge number of funny programs and deletes one which it identifies as a ‘worm’ that affects the performance of a system. I complete the process and I reboot. I don’t know what happened after that but the laptop hasn’t frozen in 24 hours. Can someone say ‘Praise God?’ that’s why I said this post is about the small things because it may seem pretty small but to me I saw the hand of God in it. The timing was perfect and I have not seen the ‘Malicious Software’ icon since then. I have searched for it in the programs list and I can’t find it either. Now I don’t know where this little angel went but it has sorted out my laptop issues. And I am thanking God for the little things.

Lord I thank you for the little things and trust you even more for the big things. Thank you Lord!