We came back from holiday to the news that the Internet has
been disconnected from The Manse!
Now this is not because the church hasn’t paid the bill – but rather because our provider says a person, unknown to us, asked for the line to be cut!
So we have been without internet or telephone for just under a week. We were all relieved when the new router arrived a few days ago – with second son deployed to connect it!!
Twenty years ago and none of this would have mattered because I wouldn’t have needed my wifi printer to crunch out my sermon or the order of service and we probably didn’t have a church website back then anyway.
But all of us at the Manse were going round starting things but then unable to finish them because we needed the internet. We’ve even started talking to each other – it got that bad!!
It’s made me realise once again how easy it is to take things for-granted until they are gone.
I regularly speak to folk who tell me what they now think is really special in life isn’t the cruise they’d always wanted to go on but the ability to walk unaided by a stick or listen to a favourite piece of music and hear every note.
Now this is not because the church hasn’t paid the bill – but rather because our provider says a person, unknown to us, asked for the line to be cut!
So we have been without internet or telephone for just under a week. We were all relieved when the new router arrived a few days ago – with second son deployed to connect it!!
Twenty years ago and none of this would have mattered because I wouldn’t have needed my wifi printer to crunch out my sermon or the order of service and we probably didn’t have a church website back then anyway.
But all of us at the Manse were going round starting things but then unable to finish them because we needed the internet. We’ve even started talking to each other – it got that bad!!
It’s made me realise once again how easy it is to take things for-granted until they are gone.
I regularly speak to folk who tell me what they now think is really special in life isn’t the cruise they’d always wanted to go on but the ability to walk unaided by a stick or listen to a favourite piece of music and hear every note.
Others say that owning all the money you could ever think
of wouldn’t be as special as having a loved one back.
Now the internet is back, hopefully the phone will be fixed
this afternoon and all will be ‘back to normal’! – but all of this has taught
me once again to be thankful for my family and friends, and for my health and
strength – because it seems to me that it’s actually the ordinary things in
life that turn out to be the most special.
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