On the World Race, a big part of our ministry is through our blog. I’ve never been a blogger nor desired to spend much time putting my feelings out there on the internet. However, we are asked by AIM and the World Race to try to post at least one blog a week, and that doesn’t bother me so much. I do also enjoy looking up things on the internet, checking my e-mail, facebook, checking news, etc.
Only, it’s not so easy…
I did not bring a laptop on the race. So I have to borrow others’ computers, if they’re free. Which is not often. Rightly so, it’s their computer, and sometimes people are irritated or tired of letting people borrow their computers. So I shy away from using it because I don’t want to irritate people. (We’re supposed to be living in community right?) Sometimes I go to an internet cafe. The endeavor to get to one is great because I can’t go by myself, it takes a while to find someone who will go with you and at the same time as you, and most people have computers so they don’t need to go. When you get there the computers are as slow as can be, sometimes don’t work at all, usually don’t have the brain capacity to let me load pictures. And, on top of it all, if I am able to get as far as typing a blog or posting pictures, I get it all typed and go to save…and the blog is deleted because the internet died or I accidentally hit the back button or something else. And sometimes the World Race blogsite itself is down. To top it all off, I lost my mp3 player somewhere in Africa so I am learning to live without music…which is one of the primary ways I worship (and a time filler on long travel days).
Doesn’t just reading this paragraph wear you out. That’s how I feel when I need to “get something done.” I know God can teach me something through this but right now…
Please have patience with me and understand the frustrations of internet and technology around the world.
