Don't Despair

         Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. (Psalm 95:1-2, New King James Version)

Hubby and I were sitting on the couch yesterday afternoon watching an old episode of Columbo, because that’s about all we could get on the TV with only the antenna. As you have surely heard, our phone line and internet has been out for nearly two weeks, which means we can’t get the thousand TV channels we usually get, which magically come into our living room via the Net.

Our phone and internet carrier said they couldn’t come to our house to check it out until November 29.

It’s been quite the inconvenience, but I kept telling myself that we still had electricity, water and heat in the house, as well as our cellphones. It was nice to go back to the life we knew as children, where we would read books late into the night or have to adjust the antenna every time we changed the channel.

So, anyway, the phone hadn’t rung in our house that whole time, when suddenly, it rang! I wish someone would have snapped our picture at that moment; we both looked at each other with “what is going on!” looks on our faces.

Picking up that phone and listening to the scam call about our Amazon account was like eating tater-tot casserole for the first time. How could something so wonderful be happening to me!

After making some calls and asking people to call us back, we realized that the land line was indeed working. We next turned our attention to the internet. We tried a few things and it looked hopeful – all the lights on the modem were the correct color. But the computer kept saying, “just kidding, you can’t connect.”

So we slept on it. This morning, I tried connecting via my laptop (or my daughter’s laptop, I should say, as mine is still sitting here in pieces thanks to my son’s efforts to fix it), and it slowly reached out and grabbed on to the world wide web.

The living room desktop computer continued to say, “no, I’m not interested in going out into the world,” but the television was game, and so we have one thousand stations once again.

After all of that excitement, along with a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast, I turned to writing my first Sunday blog in for what seems like forever. First, though, I pulled up the Bible Gateway website.

The lines above were the verses for today.  

Guys, don’t let people tell you there is no God. Don’t believe what society tells you about God. Don’t listen to Satan when he puts doubt in your head.

We all have a loving Father in heaven. He sent His Son to this sinful world to save us all. The Holy Spirit is ready and waiting for you to turn your life over to the Triune God.

Maybe things look bleak on earth right now, maybe our lives are miserable, but heaven is real, we’ll be there one day. And in the meantime, God is always only ever a prayer away.