While talking to my wife via Skype on Saturday, I looked down and then up and my laptop had a black screen. I thought hmm, maybe the video display driver just freaked out like it had in the past so I tried to restart.
After the restart, the video did not come back and that was super frustrating. Ugh it will be another week before I can get anything off of the computer, but do I really want to break it down and hook the hard drive up to another computer to pull the information, no. So I ordered a new motherboard, but that would not be available for at least a week and this is the third time I have had a major problem with this computer. So what to do?
Now because it overheated and fried the video, do I really want to trust this laptop in the future. The answer was no, so I decided to buy another. I will say the computer lasted for 6 years so the purchase was good, but overall the laptop was not as good as it should have been based on reviews that are now just coming out. I am hoping that the new one will last for at least 8 years and ultimately be a great computer.
Believe it or not, I was actually thanking the Lord for the computer malfunction. It forced me to take a hard look at how I was treating both the money and materials that the Lord has provided me. I realized that I was not treating either of them with the respect they deserved. So what to do?
Well I needed to change. How do I do that? For me that will require a great deal of strength that I can only get from the Lord. Please Lord, provide me the strength that I need to change how I treat the gifts you have given me to give you glory.