If you have ever tried to create a website, and are a newbie
like me, you will understand why I want to celebrate. After two weeks of
pulling my hair out, I finished it. At least it’s functional…could use some
fancy improvements, but for now I’m happy.
On my not-new-enough laptop, the program for creating the
website was so glitchy. Sometimes I could swear the screen had hiccups. It
often cooperated like a two year old in the middle of a temper tantrum. Whenever
I tried to drag words, they went too far one way then too far the other way…until
I screamed for my son to help. In ten seconds, Elijah typed some numbers and
moved my words exactly where I wanted them. My thirteen year-old daughter
helped with the slide show of my illustrations. I had pictures disappear then
reappear and sometimes hide behind an invisible wall. Just when I thought I got
rid of an extra picture, the crazy wall would open and let the twin drawings
say hello. Thank God for computer savvy kids.
A scripture comes to mind: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians
4:13 Creating a website may not be seem like a big deal to most—I realize this
is not finding a cure for a disease or helping the environment—but it was a
goal I set, something I wanted to accomplish without a clue of how to get it
done. I like goals, and it’s okay to ask for help. And when those larger
problems arise, the problems that seem impossible to overcome, the Lord wants
us to know He is there to give us the help we need. He is world savvy.
So now I have a website. Frances Judge / Inspirational Author & Illustrator
Now what? Try skydiving? Climb Mount Everest? Maybe I'll write with God's help.
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