Yesterday, someone had and stolen my laptop computer, it’s caring case, and my digital camera. Thankfully, nothing else was broken or damaged, I wasn’t around when it happened, and am safe and unharmed. I did file a police report and they think it was probably some kids. I have a whirlwind of thoughts and concerns going through my head. The most consuming is the feeling of invasion of privacy and the loss of priceless pictures of friends and family. I’m also missing my music files, but those are much more easily replaced. I’ve decided not to repurchase a laptop, since I wasn’t planning on taking one on The World Race anyway…so needless to say I will be learning how to use libraries and such to communicate via the internet a couple months earlier than planned.
Since joining WR many things that happen in my life have taken on a new perspective. I’ve begun to realize ways in which daily activities or events can prepare and humble me for future tasks. In this case, I see this as an act of the enemy, but also as an opportunity to adapt in being out of my comfort zone. To be honest and frank, being in America and living in Lexington, KY, I am still safer that what I will be in the upcoming travels. Chances are high that I will have something stolen, yet, I will need to find peace, comfort, and security in Christ. To know that whatever possession is stolen, I no longer needed it or that other provisions are planned for me.
I pray, that my current loss may somehow be a blessing (spiritually) to the thief, obviously they must have needed it more than I. In other various life lessons, I have learned that for the best of all people in an ugly situation is to pray for our enemies…in fact it is instructed of us in Matthew 5:44. God truly knows best, because as a victim these prayers combat the disease of bitterness and hate. In fact, praying to bless them blesses you!~~~ I find it ironic that only the night before I decided to tape a bible verse that I had thought profound to the inside of my lap top. The verse read, “To obey is better than sacrifice. 1 Samuel 15:22” I wonder how God has used this scripture to work on the heart of my “enemy”.
I think that I’m really more at peace with this than I would ever think one could be. I’ve really just taken this as an opportunity to give thanks and praises for friends, neighbors, personal safety, police officers, and situations that weren’t typical that kept me away that day.
