I was just settling in under the covers when my wife, who clearly had at least another hour in her, got me out of bed. You just want me to be awake if you’re awake, I thought. But I have to get up much earlier than you. It’s not fair. It does seem to be a phenomenon in most marriages that a “morning person” is paired with a “night person.” Opposites attract. But opposites also annoy sometimes, and Marti was suggesting I get out of bed and try and find an adaptor cord to fit Chandler’s phone in the drawer in my office where every outdated adaptor I didn’t know what to do with lies in a mass of tangled cords and plugs.
The last thing I wanted to do.
Chandler’s phone was an outdated version of a flip top phone he had gotten from a friend, and he had lost the original adaptor cord that came with it.
“It’s useless,” I said. “Every phone that’s been created has a different type of plug. The chance of finding something that fits his exact phone is next to nothing.”
“Well then throw all that stuff away if it’s useless. Better yet, I’ll throw it away for you.”
That did it. The idea of indiscriminately losing everything in that drawer got me out of my comfortable spot. She knows how to do this.
Well, would you believe that I immediately found a cord, one end of which seemed to fit the phone, but the other end was a USB plug. That’s not going to help anything. I needed something that would translate a USB plug into a wall plug. Well, you guessed it. Down in the bottom of the drawer was the very adaptor I needed. I plugged the whole thing together, plugged it into an electrical socket and “Bling,” the screen lit up and a little word formed itself: “Charging…”
Unbelievable, I thought. Impossible. But there it was: Indisputable evidence of an electronic miracle.
As I crawled back into bed I couldn’t help but think of God rummaging through all the tangled up cords of our lives and finding just the right combinations that He can run His power through. No matter how messed up we might seem, He can plug us in. He’s got something in there that fits His power perfectly. We work that way because He made us that way. It’s an electronic miracle.
John Fischer The Catch 
Hahahahahahaha!! ROFL!
Thanks John. I needed that!
Hi John! Your ability to create analogies is just ONE of the many things I love about you.
I’ve been told more than once that I (and women in general) are “wired different.” (Explains a lot, doesn’t it?) It’s nice to know that God created my schematics and has just the right connector to make my lights blink!
This is great, not to mention strong support for keeping that “useless” stuff around! 🙂
i’ll 2nd both TimC and my good & very helpful Catch buddy Carole’s comments…
PS plz forgive me 4 going on and one about me and nmy Biz, yet i’m sitting in front of my PC this morning w/ a few tears running down my cheeks, some because has I just happen to think about and check my checking acct. balance last night and seen i’d be a few dollars short on a monthly end of month expense and thx God i had enough quaters laying around to cover it, so took my power chair up to the bank first thing this morning to make a depoist, yet was a bit bummed-out ’cause i like to do my excerises first thing, so i missed that. then when i came home i read the “Daily Hope,” by Rick Warren and sure enough it was about “God gives Jacob a brand new identity (Genesis 32:28).” and within it he meantions: “God gave Jacob/Israel a limp (Genesis 32:31). Remember, when they wrestled…” and i began to cry, not becauz i have ever physically ever wrested w/ God, yet I have spiritly many upon many of times! And i do have a limp in my walk from the stroke, so got a lil chuckle over that and it made me cry a bit too – because me being handicapped and trying to work my way of of disability income has become one of the main thrust of my Biz – especailly amoung the profesional athletes… As in you help me and in-return my product is guranateed to help you with your performance, plus i promise to give you exceptional customer seervice…
God bless you, Mark.
Nice. Very nice, John. Bet you slept like a baby after that.
John,
I laughed hard – mostly because Marti sounds like my bride of 48 years and I am exactly like you regarding collecting and then unwilling to toss what “might be valuable and needed some day.”
Thanks for recognizing that God is not done with us yet.
Might I recommend to the phone makers, in their new line of phones to drop the “charging ” display and use “you light up my life” instead. Progress don’t you think?
I like it!