Day 19: Gratitude focus – A community worker

Quality or name of God – My Creator

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“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” (Psalm 139:13)

I’ve been trying to set up the wireless router to use in my apartment. Up until now, I’ve simply plugged the internet cable into the back of my computer, and it’s been just fine. But now that I’m editing on a more full-time basis, I want to be able to take my computer from room to room. I have a wireless router I purchased a few years ago, so I decided to once again put it to good use.

The problem came when I couldn’t remember all the steps required for connecting everything that needed to be connected! For two weeks now, I’ve been trying to remember how to hook this baby up. However, last night, as I read Psalm 139 in preparation for this post, I recalled an old story that Paul Harvey told on the radio many years ago, and that memory prodded me to get out the instructions for the wireless router—instructions that have been available all along.

As Paul Harvey told it, his wife had just purchased a new vacuum cleaner with a lot of fancy gadgets attached. He said that she needed to read the instruction manual to find out how those gadgets worked because the people who made the vacuum knew best how it should function. He wisely compared that to her need to daily go to her “Instruction Manual” (the Bible) to find out what her Creator had designed her to accomplish.

How often do I think I can do something on my own, work myself into exhaustion trying my own solutions and heading down the wrong paths, only to find that once I finally open the manual written by the One Who created me, the instructions have been there all along?

He created us. He wants what’s best for us. And He gave us the manual with all the instructions and “troubleshooting notes” we will ever need. We just need to use it.

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Additional reading (for reading through the Psalms in 30 days):

Psalm 19, 49, 79, 109, 139

»  – Send an email to thank your recipient for their work in the community. Keep it brief but sincere.

»$ – Send a card of thanks to your community worker of choice today. If possible and if applicable, have each person in your family sign the card.

$ – Send a plant or plate of cookies to the office of your community workers sometime this week. Thank them for their part in protecting and defending your family.

 » = free      »$ = minimal cost     $ = cost involved

 “Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.” (G .B. Stern)