His Mysterious Ways, Continued

After I experienced an almost miraculous replacement for my recently ailing computer system just over a week ago, something else very odd happened.

In the middle of the following week, my internet connection went out mid-day. An hour later, my land-line phone went dead. Thankfully, we have one working low-budget cell phone which we kept when my nephew was driving the cab. We still had time on it. It took three days to get a technician out to repair the line.

Frustrating as the whole thing was, the problem was not the phone company's outside line, bur rather inside my home. The line connecting my all-in-one printer, fax jack to wall jack, shorted out apparently. We disconnected it and the phone and internet was back up and running.

Now, here's the interesting thing about this.

Back in November, we went to a bundled service with Century Link for land line phone service, Internet, and TV service via Prism. We had already had everything except their TV service. When they connected that, our DVR was supposed to be able to record in one room and be viewed in another. With Frank driving the cab at odd hours, and me picking him up and dropping him off, again at odd hours, our life was topsy-turvy. The DVR sounded great for shows we might normally miss.

However, from the moment the technician left after installing it, it never worked properly. I'd record in one room, and the other room complained it wasn't connected to the Internet. I'd try to view in the originating room and it would say that someone was viewing in the other room. I couldn't erase the recordings - it wouldn't let me.

The day the fellow came for our recent land line outage, I asked him about my internet service. Turns out the original installer hadn't properly connected the wireless connection and this fellow was able to get rid of some wires I had strung along my floor under a rag rug. My connection is immediate now.

I also asked him about the TV and DVR. He did some magic with his handheld device and fixed that, too.

So, if my land line had not gone out, I would still be struggling with an irritating internet connection and a non-working DVR setup. With one visit from the technician, it was all cleared up at no cost to me. The Lord came through, again, a bit dramatically, as always in my life, but in exactly the way we needed and in even better fashion than we expected.

Dear Father, once again, you handled one of our problems in your time and your way, and it was a wonderful solution. Please bless that technician for his patience and remind me often of the times you come through for us.