Mickey Ears

 

Awoke to a power cut yesterday morning. The woman who took my call was courteous and polite, apologetic and helpful. She assured me we should be back on by 9 am, and we were.

Later in the day, I turned on my laptop, only to discover we had no internet. Were the two things connected? No idea.

Without any younger person in the house for back-up, Don and I opened the instruction book Doug wrote before they moved to Australia. He installed our internet, a bespoke system using 4 or 5G from a mast nearby, as rural internet speeds are rubbish. So grateful for his talent and foresight, to leave us with an instruction manual…which worked. We easily found our issue and how to rectify it (basically unplug something with Mickey ears and wait 30 seconds before re-plugging in – easy if someone tells you So glad that computer geeks identified the socket with a word conjuring a visual image. Everyone knows Mickey Mouse). A few minutes later, we were back online.

‘Blessed are those whose strength is in God,’ Psalm 84 says: ‘they go from strength to strength.’

So many issues in the world today are beyond my understanding. I have no idea. I am so grateful that God has given us an instruction book, on which we can rely. Not that there is anything so straightforward as unplugging something with Mickey ears, though sometimes it might be something as clear as to be kind or compassionate or forgiving. When we look into the Bible and listen for God’s guiding voice, relying on him, in him we are strong.

Lord, I pray today for those who have no options but to rely on you. Help them to do so. Help them to put their trust in you. We cry out for those in the firing lines all over the world. Lord, have mercy today, and come to their aid. And for those of us with options today, give us the self-discipline to rely on you and not on our own understanding, that we might not be judgmental, unkind and narrow-minded.