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sometimes i don't want to sleep. there's so much i want to do and if i sleep, i might forget...

what we don't know

as i walked out of an office today with information i should have known but was never told, i realized the truth of Hosea...what we don't know will kill us, or more precisely "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

i realize that the verse speaks specifically to lack of knowledge about God but i see how it trickles down into other less meaning aspects of life like my job. there's so much i've had to find out the hard way. i'm reasonable. i know there's only so much telling one can do. some things will just have to be found out. it's unfortunate. that's why i've been spending time over the last 2 weeks creating a manual for whoever comes after me. my job is so multifaceted even though i have a title.

this small fry experience is teaching me about the big picture--God wants to save us and he wants us to be a part of the process of saving each other. so he has packed a lot of information into a book and he expects us to tell each other about it so that he can be revealed more fully (though never completely coz we're slow). i should want nothing more than to know that you're on the path to heaven, that you've accepted salvation and are basking in God's love. that should be my focus. i should be reading this book over and telling you what i've read...

i don't want you to die because you didn't know something that i knew...

what do you do?

you've fallen asleep for a nap
you wake up seeing what looks like daybreak
you check the clock only because your cellphone beeps
you wonder who in the world called you during the night
you see the time
1:04am

what?

so now i'm watching the olympics but i should stop. i actually do have homework to complete. thanks God for the early start (?)

linksys--thank you

i was just on the phone with a nice gentleman from the philippines. he spent the last 30+ minutes trying to get my wireless to work. it's 5:30am in his world, 5:30pm in mine. i'm almost exhausted from clicking this and plugging in that, reloading this, shutting down that... and now i'm truly wireless and secure too (no one's getting a free ride off of me and my roommate!)

did i mention that the tech is in the philippines? okay. i won't go into whether or not outsourcing is good/economical/kind/ethical/etc...yeah, i won't go there.

i'll just say: thanks linksys for really great customer service. thanks for knowing how to deal with the mac world and for not telling me to call back on tuesday when the mac tech is in. thanks for being persistent in figuring out the issue. thanks for listening. thanks for leaving me a happy customer. i may even fill out that survey. till next time...