I’m finishing up my series on Proverbs on May 9th, which also happens to be Mother’s Day. I’ll be working from Proverbs 31:10-31, AKA as the women of virtue, or the good wife passage. As if mothers don’t already have enough pressure on them, I’m going to remind them of the biblical vision of what a REAL woman does.

Then again, maybe that’s not what Proverbs 31 is all about. Hmmm.

Yes, as a matter of fact, I am still working on the swingset.

You heard the man. It’s dead. What I thought was a routine medical procedure ended up killing my laptop. Several months of work is lost. Most of it wasn’t worth saving. A lot can be reconstructed from hard copies that are scattered around. All in all, it could have been much worse. I’m trying very hard not to think of this event in theological terms. Otherwise, I might come to the conclusion that God judged my recent work and found it to be wanting. Maybe this is a change in strategy. He no longer responds to heresy with lightning bolts, he just fries our hard drive and sends us back to the drawing board.

Wisdom from Mike Cope
As the father of two little boys, I need to be reminded of this regularly.

I’ve been shopping for a new laptop for months. A couple of days ago I finally pulled the trigger on a Dell. It arrived today and I immediately started to get to know my new friend with whom I’ll be spending a great deal of time.

While I was in the process of transferring files from my old laptop to my new one, my old friend crashed. Tech support said the operating system is corrupted and I may have lost everything. I won’t know for sure until a local expert takes a look at it in a day or two. My last backup was several months ago, so if all is lost, all is not completely lost, but I’ll still have some catching up to do. While I’m hopeful that most of my files can be retrieved, there are some short-term inconveniences involved.

What I can’t believe is that it happened while I was in the process of transferring my files. It is almost as if my old computer knew what was coming and did this out of spite. No matter what the outcome of this little ordeal, from this moment forward I’m determined to become a better backer upper.