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Usually comes as a real surprise then you find what has been holding you back. This morning, I got up to finish a little programming – just copying what was in a book. Yeah right! The program kept failing and giving me the strangest errors. Searched the web looking for a meaning for the errors. Looked at all kinds of error logs on the server. Read and re-read the books I had been working from. All to no avail. So, started from scratch, using another program written by someone else, and it worked. Well, the short story is that after many comparisons the problem was located. Someone (namely me) had typed a ‘;’ instead of the required ‘:’ at one point in the program. Changed that, and everything about it worked.

Kind of reminds me that proofreading your work is not a bad thing – nor is comparing it to the original. Had I done that, the problem would have been gone last night. This meshed with this mornings study in 1 Peter 5. His admonishment to “stand firm” points us to knowing what we believe and letting that be our shield. Also in verse 8, made me vividly remember watching “Animal Planet” and seeing how lions attack. When problems come, we need to be prepared – to have something for defense. God’s Word would be a very good start.

Managed to figure out another part of this “blog” software, and had to go back and re-enter all the files. That created a need to go back in time, since the files are pulled up in calendar and time sequence. Thought about finding some software that would let me change the date/time stamp, but it was just easier to change the computer clock, change the files and change the clock again until I was done. Blog is starting to look much better, now need to work more on the content (LOL). Need to get some work done to make it easier to update this though – will keep you posted. For a little book in The Book, 1 Peter has some gems. This morning, along with everything else, got to verses 8 and 9 in chapter 4 and the words “love for one another” and “hospitality”. Kind of hard to push the “love” thing aside when those were the words of Jesus – and He went beyond talking to Christians – He brought it down to my neighbor. Hospitality kind of catches us up in our perception of being an entertainer, when that is not what the word is about. One commentator says “hospitality centers on the guest, not the host.” It’s doing for the other person – meeting their needs should be the primary concern. I like this from the Life Application Study Bible – “Don’t hesitate to offer hospitality just because you are too tired, too busy or not wealthy enough to entertain.”