Last week I was totally frustrated. I could not get my printer to print correctly. I had been trying to print out the first chapters of the new book for Vi to edit. I also wanted to print a rewrite of my first book, On My Way, as I was adding a chapter on a Black Circle.
The printer condensed the print. It was unreadable. I thought I messed up the program in the computer, so I took out my old computer. It printed the page in a narrow column, worse than the first. I then printed out just one page of the Black Circle from the other book and it split the page, so only half of it printed. I thought the problem must be computer related. I texted Bill, my go to guy. He did not get the message, and Vi was asking for the book to edit it. So, early the next morning, I texted our neighborhood IT guru. He texted back that he could be over at 7 that evening.
When he came, I printed out 4 pages from the book. They printed perfectly. “What’s going on?” I said, “Let’s try printing the Black Circle from the other book I am rewriting.” The printer printed four pages perfectly. He said, “It often happens. I can see you are a writer.” I said, “Yes,” and started to explain why I added the Black Circle to the book. I explained what each of the other circles represented in the book. He told me about his life, and how he had been in the Black Circle. He said, “Once God brings you out of the Black circle, nothing phases you anymore.”
The IT fellow began telling me about his life and how, after going through many job losses, he ended up on his own, helping people like me. He told me about a man whom he had recently helped, who was dying from brain cancer. The man told him that he did not believe in God. My IT guy said, “Here this person is dying from cancer, and he doesn’t believe in God. I haven’t been able to get him out of my mind all week. How could this man be dying and not believe in God?” So, I gave my IT man the two books I wrote and suggested that he should read them. Maybe one of these books could help the guy dying from brain cancer if he read it.
The next morning, I sent the IT guru a link to the Do Good story on my website. I had remembered that a neighbor of mine, who did not believe in God and was dying, had read it. I think he came to believe in God through that story. I thought that perhaps the Do Good story, if shared with the man with brain cancer, it could also impact him even more than one of the books.
I tell this story because when the IT guru left that evening, both of us knew why my printer did not function. We both knew that God had brought us together. No one knows, why or how God makes things happen, like the printer not functioning, or what the real reason was that he wanted us to meet that evening. Down the road maybe we will find out, but for now God has inserted Himself into our lives for a reason. Later, I thought of several different reasons why God may have created this chain of events. Writing this blog was one of them. Do you believe that God is real and that He can, and does involve Himself to such a degree in our daily lives?
