So I was working on my sermon late this afternoon and had about three or four more paragraphs to write when Jackson innocently (I still don’t know how) rebooted my computer. Unfortunately, I had not recently saved my sermon so I lost about 2 pages of my sermon but they represented the bulk of the work I had done today. Today is Saturday, tomorrow is Sunday. At first I wasn’t upset because I thought Pages (IWork) autosaved documents until I realized that they don’t. It didn’t take long to get mad, but mad at who or what? Mad at Jackson? He didn’t mean to nor did he even know what he had done. Mad at myself for not saving more often? Yes! Mad at IWork for not including an autosave function? Yes! Mad at God for allowing Jackson to reset my computer. Yeah. After all, I was working on a sermon and not some menial or even secular thing. How could he let that happen? Why didn’t he stop Jackson from rebooting my computer and losing part of my sermon? But I think the thing that I am maddest about is the reality that we live in a world that does not function the way it’s supposed to. A pastor losing part of his sermon on Saturday evening is not supposed to happen. It is a violation of the shalom that God created the world to experience. It makes me hunger and thirst for the future righteousness of God that will reign and rule in my heart and the world, which is ironic because that’s what my sermon is about.

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