Blessing in Disguise

As many of you may have seen, over the weekend my computer decided it would no longer work. I hit the power button and...nothing. "Freaking fantastic." 

Now, I am now a person who curses...but gosh was I close! Not only had my computer crashed, but i kept everything...everything on that computer. School work. Reports. Exam study guides. Essays in progress. You name it, it was on there. But all it took was one morning for it not to work and all those things POOF! Gone. Worse yet, I can't get any of it back. 

Let me tell ya, I was bitter! And still am somewhat, but through all of this and the past few days of not having my laptop a blessing emerged: I wasn't spending needless time on facebook, twitter, pinterest, and games when i should be doing homework. yes, all my homework was on that laptop, but i could restart some of it using the computers in the library...the thing is...is wasn't my own and I couldn't have it out whenever. so during the two classes i use it in, i sat and took notes instead of surfed the web when lecture got boring. I understood vocab mentioned in class and how it related to the last section of reading because my ears were tuned into my professors. At night, when I had just finished a long day of classes and work, I could go to bed without opening my laptop and getting on facebook for an hour looking at pictures i had seen a dozen times. Homework was getting done quicker because i wasn't distracted...and the time i had opened was filled with friends. Dinners. Lunches. Desserts. Tanning on Bitner beach. I had time i didn't allow myself to have before. 

It is still very hard not having a laptop with me. It is still tempting to be bitter and blame God for not fixing my computer when i prayed over it. It is even better to commit those feelings all to Him and trust in His timing and thank Him for the blessings He has bestowed upon me these past 3 days.

God is good. All the time.