(I wanted to talk about my connection experience this morning, which got me to connecting it with Jesus' well known statement to Nathaniel. - but have to leave for Church in 5 minutes - I'll be back and edit it in later - Lord willing.

I am back.

This morning I wanted to make a quick check before church to see if my son had answered my email, but I could not seem to get connected. I had about 8 programs open for a project I have going and had just been putting the laptop on hold each time I did something else for a couple of weeks instead of turning it off. And I guess it got into what our IT guy back at work used to call a “snit” (very technical term). So the way to get out of a snit is to reboot. and if that does not do it, reboot the modem too. By the time I got done and back on it was too late to do anything but start this article, that I wanted to write because the whole thing reminded me of 1) my life, and 2)Jesus’ words to Nathaniel, the wise Pharisee who sneaked in a night to ask Jesus what it is all about:
Jesus told him he must be “born again”. Which I guess for a person, whose life is in a “snit”, as mine was 30 years ago, is the same as getting rebooted. I think in my childhood, while I had few thoughts of God, I did have a sort of spiritual connection with things – I think we are all born with this. But as life goes on and all kinds of stuff comes in and we go this way and that in the wrong direction, and we are always putting the serious basic things on hold while we deal with the daily junk, that our lives get in a “snit” and we begin to feel lost and empty and disconnected. And we say Help!, I can’t do this anymore but I don’t know how to get out of it. Then the Master IT Guy comes and reboots us, and wonderfully it is all OK again, or as Jesus said, we are Born Again.
My connections are working fine again and I got a good weekly systems checkup in Church.
Hope you all are also well connected

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