Perspective

This week we experienced a loss at church. Somehow... nobody's sure just how it happened... we totally lost all the powerpoint song files we had been upgrading and adding graphics to over the last year or more. We also lost all our worship ppt files for this year. Did we have current versions backed up somewhere... no... and shame on me for that. Will we survive... of course... and as we rebuild the files, we'll back things up more faithfully this time... just in case.

Now to the perspective part. The other day I got an email off the Christian Education Association list serve from a Children's Minister whose dad is an elder at the Thomas Street Church of Christ in Altus, Oklahoma. As she wrote, the building was fully involved in fire, and the firefighters had to mostly just watch because the hydrants were frozen. The main building burned totally to the ground, but the family center survived with only some smoke damage. Bible class teachers lost up to 40 years of material... the ministry and support staff lost everything. Thankfully nobody was hurt. I guess losing some ppt files is... well... small stuff... I had a friend who always said, "Don't sweat the small stuff." I think he's right.

One more thing... tonight on Nightline, they'll be talking to mothers who lost their sons in Iraq.