Fixing the Connections

Good Morning All,

Last week when we took a look at Jesus’ teachings about the Kingdom of God ; the Realm of God, One of the things to which Jesus compared it all, was a mustard seed—reminding us that bigger is not necessarily better. My recent encounter with “new and improved” technology caused me to reflect upon this teaching when it comes to the countless advertisements shouting at us about upgrades, the bundling of services and other technological gadgets. Is the latest and greatest that technology has to offer, better? I really do wonder…

A few weeks ago one of the thunderstorms that rolled through our area affected my cable TV service. I was a bit perplexed in that it only affected the TV in the living room—yes, I have more than one television in my home…but we’re not going there, OK? :) Tried as I might, I couldn’t get it to work and had to resort to going online with “live tech support.” After about 20 minutes of instructions, ranging from, “Tell me what is lit up on the box” to “Let’s reboot by unplugging the electrical connection in the wall,” the internet connection fails and “Bye-bye tech help!”

Then thru the magic of cyberspace, I get reconnected, not to the same tech of course, who finally told me that she would make arrangements for an onsite tech to come out and fix the problem. And 4 days later, the tech did just that…and to my embarrassment, by punching a few keys on the remote!

And then 5 days later someone is in the driveway spray painting orange and red lines from the road to the house. What are you doing? I’m preparing the way for some cable guys to lay a new cable line…and I’m thinking, “Funny, you don’t look like John the Baptist!” :) And 3 days later, 2 other guys arrive to lay the new cable. While doing so, I have no cable, no internet, no phone—the joys of “bundling” my services—more like bungling. When they said they were finished and we’re leaving, I asked them to wait while I checked to see if everything was back up and running…And yes, you guessed it; I still had no connections of any sort…

“Well, Ma’am, our lines are definitely connected…you’ll have to call for a Time Warner tech to come out.”
“And I’m supposed to do that by using a dead phone?”
Hmmmm…”Let me see what I can do…” And off he goes to consult with his companion…and 30 minutes later all is connected correctly to the power source; the services are restored… WoooooHooo!

Amid all my frustrations, I pause…there really is a life lesson at work here…isn’t this the problem that you and I have from day to day? When we find ourselves not working or functioning up to par, it doesn’t take long to realize that we are not connected to the Power Source. The Power is there, but it’s not coming through. Yes, you and I are functioning at some level—maybe even able to sit up and take a little thin soup—but it’s not enough to tackle what we must tackle in any given day. Sooner or later we run out of steam; we must reboot our system so that we may be connected to the source of power…THE Source of Power, lest we lose important data.

Excuse me…I must go now and Power Up so that I will have whatever I need to move through this day…perhaps you need to do the same…

Blessings, Joanne

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