One Click Too Many
My friend Tim shared this story with me…
“Barb, my wife, was babysitting our niece. She's 2. Avery loves to play with buttons. Yesterday, she got up on the chair by the computer and began to play with the mouse. In just a matter of a few unsupervised minutes, she managed to change the orientation of the screen so that everything was turned on its side. Barb didn't want to call and break the news over the phone so she waited until I walked into the house and let me discover this little surprise all by myself.
Here's the amazing thing about VISTA. A 2 year old can change the orientation of the display with a few clicks of the mouse, but it takes an adult who spends most of his day on a computer the better part of an hour to undo it. Actually it took Zack holding the monitor on its side while I did 3 Google searches to find the fix. Not surprisingly, you don't actually change the orientation through the monitor icon in control panel. You access it through sounds and something. Ahhh yes.... VISTA. Makes me wonder why I didn't buy a Mac...”
Can you imagine with Tim and me how fast it happened? One 2 year old discovered something that I didn’t even know was possible – your monitor’s orientation rotating.
This small story is so much like life. One moment can change every thing – when we least expect it. Some times the results are reversible – other times it is not so. It is permanent – nothing will change affect that ‘innocent click’.
I met a man that discovered another woman that was hurting. She poured out her heart to him about her bad relationship with her own husband – he fell for it…hook line and sinker. His own life was ruined and so was his new encounter. “One too many clicks” destroyed every one involved.
Then there are the people that have to take oodles of time to get the “orientation back” to the place that you can make sense of what is happening. In my friend Tim’s situation he needed help to get it right and it took time – lots of time…more time than it took to get the problem.
Unfortunately for the other man – everything was not able to be changed back the way it was before. He was hurt, his wife was hurt and the other lady along with her marriage went down the tube – affecting two teenagers and even the dog.
The Bible is clear in encouraging a man or a woman “to guard their heart”. We can take that further and suggest that we guard everything that may be connected to our person.
The old fashioned idea of walking/keeping a “holy life” is for today. The old fashioned idea is as new as March 29, 2008…or the day that you read this.
There is nothing wrong with living right. Can I shout that out on this page....There is nothing wrong with living right! The world seriously needs to see some strong right living – it might well blow everyone away. A new standard to start all of us on a new road.
But… the really important part…
If you have messed up ‘your monitor’ – there is hope – God cares even for stuff that everyone else condemns. We need only come back and tell him about it – ask forgiveness and then get it right. God loves people that start over… and when they don’t know what to do… he is there to assist them.
Hey… we are pulling for you today and praying too.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
“Barb, my wife, was babysitting our niece. She's 2. Avery loves to play with buttons. Yesterday, she got up on the chair by the computer and began to play with the mouse. In just a matter of a few unsupervised minutes, she managed to change the orientation of the screen so that everything was turned on its side. Barb didn't want to call and break the news over the phone so she waited until I walked into the house and let me discover this little surprise all by myself.
Here's the amazing thing about VISTA. A 2 year old can change the orientation of the display with a few clicks of the mouse, but it takes an adult who spends most of his day on a computer the better part of an hour to undo it. Actually it took Zack holding the monitor on its side while I did 3 Google searches to find the fix. Not surprisingly, you don't actually change the orientation through the monitor icon in control panel. You access it through sounds and something. Ahhh yes.... VISTA. Makes me wonder why I didn't buy a Mac...”
Can you imagine with Tim and me how fast it happened? One 2 year old discovered something that I didn’t even know was possible – your monitor’s orientation rotating.
This small story is so much like life. One moment can change every thing – when we least expect it. Some times the results are reversible – other times it is not so. It is permanent – nothing will change affect that ‘innocent click’.
I met a man that discovered another woman that was hurting. She poured out her heart to him about her bad relationship with her own husband – he fell for it…hook line and sinker. His own life was ruined and so was his new encounter. “One too many clicks” destroyed every one involved.
Then there are the people that have to take oodles of time to get the “orientation back” to the place that you can make sense of what is happening. In my friend Tim’s situation he needed help to get it right and it took time – lots of time…more time than it took to get the problem.
Unfortunately for the other man – everything was not able to be changed back the way it was before. He was hurt, his wife was hurt and the other lady along with her marriage went down the tube – affecting two teenagers and even the dog.
The Bible is clear in encouraging a man or a woman “to guard their heart”. We can take that further and suggest that we guard everything that may be connected to our person.
The old fashioned idea of walking/keeping a “holy life” is for today. The old fashioned idea is as new as March 29, 2008…or the day that you read this.
There is nothing wrong with living right. Can I shout that out on this page....There is nothing wrong with living right! The world seriously needs to see some strong right living – it might well blow everyone away. A new standard to start all of us on a new road.
But… the really important part…
If you have messed up ‘your monitor’ – there is hope – God cares even for stuff that everyone else condemns. We need only come back and tell him about it – ask forgiveness and then get it right. God loves people that start over… and when they don’t know what to do… he is there to assist them.
Hey… we are pulling for you today and praying too.
~ Pastor Murray Lincoln ~
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
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