Well folks, here it is the middle of summer ( then again it might last more than two weeks) and we, that's Elaine and I, are not moving but waiting to move. We have been pretty much packed up for a month now since we needed to sell the 5th wheel we have been living in for the last three years or so. At least thats what we thought. It turns out that the 38 ft 5th wheel is not a readily sale-able commodity. Sooo we have been camping in the 5th wheel. You know the routine; "Honey have you seen _____?" Thats normal since I am usually the asker. What isn't normal is the answer. "Oh we packed that, I know exactly where it is." Followed by an increasingly frantic search of the container first by 'The finder of all things' and thence by 'The fixer of all things.' This situation escalates in direct proportion to the importance of the misplaced, packed, or lost object, you know shoe laces, through to recovery disks for the just crashed computer. If you know me well you will know that I made the last one up, after all why would I make a recovery disk? The computer has never crashed before, at least not in the past ten years or so. Oops, that's not quite true as I did fry the CPU in the desk top last year, I guess that qualifies as a crash. You should have seen the smirk on the face of the tech when I explained why I needed him to recover the data off that hard drive.

Come on now give me a break, I was only trying to clean out all that dust which was clogging up the cooling function of the CPU and the Power supply. Remember, I am 'the fixer of all things' so what else would you expect from me.

Just maybe there is a lesson tucked away in here somewhere. Is it that waiting can be hard? Perhaps, but then again it might just be that I need to learn that some things need the specialist to do the fixing. Oft times I try to do what the Holy Spirit was given to us to do, ie point out where the real problem is and then to point us to the real source of power for the implementation of the of the solution. I am not off the hook since I still have to be willing to appropriate that power by faith. Oh, did I tell you that even the faith has to be accessed from the Saviour. Good thing though, because while I want to 'Be in control" and try to play at being God, the real truth is that I just don't have either the power or the faith within me.

What about you?