GRACE OF GOD AND HELP FROM MY FRIEND

I took a leap of faith yesterday. I bought the Microsoft 8 package to upgrade my PC and a Tablet. I took the leap entirely because I was forced to, but what other reason is there really to take a leap of faith? 

Microsoft notified all of us XP users one short week ago that it was going to drop all of us on our heads, and after April 8 our computers were going to be utterly open and unprotected from liars, thieves, cheats and hackers. 

I am blessed with a wonderful friend who knows all there is to know about all there is to know having to do with computers so he went with me to pick out and buy what I needed. Then he installed it all. Blessed? Graced, I believe, is the word.

I have been working with desktop computers since 1984...30 years...that's impossible, isn't it? It's embarrassing for sure because the fact is I am still nine-tenths computer illiterate. So, I'm pondering that fact, along with the fact that I need to learn the Tablet and the new 8 because I tend to think I only use my PC for e-mails and this blog so it's not urgent. When I wrote out all the things I use it for, however...whoa. Enlightenment, in a word. It isn't just a "want" to learn, it really is a "need" to learn. Which cheered me up...I'm convinced wants are of self (we may get them, we may not), but needs are of God (if we need it, it will happen). 

Here's where I get to move my knowing that I Am that I Am from my head down to my heart and in to my gut. I am responsible for learning the Tablet and the upgrade, after which I need to remember unto reliance that It, God, is within me/without me, using my brain, my hands...me...to do the work. 

Just today I noted in the first sentence in my God Calling ("I am all-powerful and all-knowing, and I have all your affairs in my hands.") that long ago I had circled all the "I's" when I realized that that I lies within me...walks before me to make the crooked places straight, performeth that which is given me to do.

I only need to let go of my fearful belief that the entire learning unto doing process is dependent upon me. It is dependent on me and on my making myself available to God's mysterious power. I get to walk forward, stumbling and bumbling, but getting there, getting my right answers, doing it. All through the grace of God, my willingness, and a lot of help from my friend Mark.

Thank you.