“I work hard,” I told myself.
“Tomorrow my wife will see how much I accomplish…”
I was working at home the next day…
“Wait till she sees how I spend the entire day getting things done on the computer and the phone. She’ll be impressed.”
I had a plan for tomorrow. It was a plan to boast and brag.
Can disaster lurk far behind a plan like that?
The alarm clock rang the next morning at its normal time
I turned it off.
There’d be no commute today, so a little extra sleep wouldn’t hurt…
A little extra sleep turned into an hour.
Not to worry.
It was still early.
First on the agenda…Breakfast!
I was working at home so I could spend a little extra time on breakfast!
I’d get a lot done today.
My wife would be so impressed.
I logged into the office network to begin my day of miraculous achievement.
Enter my user name…
Enter my password…
The hourglass started to spin.
I waited…
And waited.
And waited.
Finally it stopped.
First on the agenda: check overnight emails.
I clicked on an email. The hourglass started to spin again.
“Oh well”, I thought. “I’ll make a cup of coffee while it spins.”
Several minutes later, coffee cup in hand, I sat back down at the computer.
The hourglass was still spinning.
I gave up and called support…
Could I wait just a minute on hold?
Ten minutes later they came back on the line.
“Reboot your computer”, they said.
I did.
No improvement.
“We’ll check speed on our end”, they said.
Ten more minutes on hold…
The technician came back on line.
“We found the problem. Here’s what you need to do…
He was halfway through his explanation when I looked at the clock.
I was working from home because my mid-morning appointment was close to my house.
I‘d be late unless I left right away and drove “aggressively.”
(Note to all members of the law enforcement community reading this post: I did not exceed the speed limit. Much.)
I got home around three PM to find the hourglass still spinning, and spent the rest of the afternoon on the phone with technical support.
At dinner, my wife asked, “Get much done today?”
This was not the conversation I had fantasized before the day began.
I had fantasized a conversation in which I boasted about one accomplishment after another.
“What did you get done today?” she repeated.
I hesitated, trying to think of anything to boast about. I felt like the 90 pound weakling of the business world.
“Not much.” I replied. “Would you pass the corn, please?”
2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me”…My power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
