Today is a lesson learned post. The Lord taught me a very valuable lesson today I hope I hang on to. I did something really dumb. If you have followed my blog and if you know me personally, you know I am a very big picture/family video/memories and family history person. Not the family tree charts but the personality and life of family. I take pictures and video constantly at family things and with my children especially. I have a seperate hard drive that I back all this up to once a month so if something happens to my computer than I still have the majority of my families memories preserved. As I was backing up said hard drive (which has not been done in two months instead of one) I was not paying super close attention and instead of erasing the family video file on my portable hard drive I erased it off the computer hard drive. Yes, two months of video I had taken- gone. My youngest's 1st birthday was not backed up. My brother's 35th surprise party was not backed up. My husband's 30th and son's 6th birthday was not backed up. See some of the gems I erased with one click? So after I do this and realize my mistake, I immediately pray that I can get them back. I got a feeling of peace. Everything was going to be okay. So I assume that that means I will be able to get them back. I calm down and breathe. I let my husband know. I search the computer all over to try and recover the file. I can't find it. As I am frantically looking I still get a peaceful feeling. So I do all I can and leave it for my husband and think he or maybe my cousin can recover them. As the day went on was when the Lord started teaching me. Little bit by little bit He was showing me why it was okay if I did not recover the file. First, I still had the old file on the portable hard drive so I was only missing the last two months. Second, these moments of video I had also taken pictures of so we still had a physical reminder of the event to form a memory from to reminisce. Third, there are a lot of families who are not as blessed as we are to have the videos we have and to be able to watch them. We still have a treasure trove of videos to watch. So, line upon line, bit by bit, I was being taught. The Lord was answering my prayer but not anywhere near what I thought it should be. The peace meant I was going to get my stuff back, right? That's what my narrow sighted mind thought. The Lord works on a higher level and wanted me to appreciate more what I had and to realize something like this does not end the world. Life goes on and it is still good. He did not fix the problem, He fixed me. I am grateful that He helped me to see the bigger picture.
God Loves You!
Heather
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