Mobile Ministry Magazine

My Lesson
I am getting ready to rest for the night, but I wanted to write some on how I think that me not having a laptop and just using a Treo is a good lesson for me about what is really important about ministry, about life.

For me, I have always been one to want the tool, knowing that if I had the tool that it would be easy to get the job done. Come to think of it, I think many of us are like that. "God, give me this and I will be able to do what you called me to do in that." There was a time when I thought that there was nothing wrong with that kind of thinking. But it was that kind of thinking that took the seed of the Word that is sown in me (sorry, just read Mark 4), and choked it.

While I do admit, there are a lot of not so kool drawbacks to using a Treo as your only computer. The screen size is one thing, browsing is another, trying to do web dev is another, and just staying in contact the way I am accustomed to is another. It is not a drawback because I am in lack. Rather, it is a drawack because I am in a place where I have to work on using what I am given, and not much extra, in order to produce something.

Before I sat to write this, I was working on Issue 4. Issue 4 is going to be MMM's first HTML version. Part of the reason for choosing to do it that way is that it would make it easier to distribute. And if coded correctly, it would even print in a very nice manner too. This challenge of making something is something that I had been looking forward to, just not on my Treo. Doing this on my Trero is fustrating, and exciting all at the same time. Truth be told, its hard. And some days after work, I don't want to work hard on MMM, I want to just get something done.

And so I am getting in my lesson. Usually when I have these moments, I learn my lesson, but things stir for a lot longer. That is ok. I am holding nothing against anyone or God. This is the hand that I get to play with. And while I can say that it is getting harder and harder to bear reading the small text while I type, I know that my heart is in this becaues I have to work for it.

For you who are reading this and thinking that I am probably making a lot out of something really small. Maybe I am. But maybe this is the lesson that we all need to learn, whether by living it or hearing of someone else's struggle and triumph. Nothing successful comes easy. There is work involved. And for me and MMM, this is just my admission that this is a lesson that I am coming to terms with and agreeing to.
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