A Mitzvah (or blessed Gift)

Everyone who knows me knows how much I enjoy taking snapshots and then manipulating the digital images on my computer. The other day my camera slipped out of my hand because I was concentrating on making tea and wasn't thinking about the camera in my other hand. The lens was still out and it was buckled and wouldn't retract so the camera wouldn't work. I was upset but very quickly realised that if a material thing means too much to you, you probably shouldn't have it. The bible tells us not to store up treasure here on earth where moths, rust and thieves can get them, but rather to store up treasure for yourself in heaven by doing kind deeds in secret.

Today, I took the camera into the camera shop to see if it could be repaired. It couldn't. The man said that as digital camera specifications go up and the prices come down, it costs more to repair an ordinary digital camera than to buy a new one. Of course its different for professional photographer's cameras, but the ordinary ones people like me have can't be repaired. I was quite dejected because at the moment I look like a sheepdog because I can't afford to have my hair cut, so a new digital camera would be completely unattainable. I'm expecting a new grandchild in May and couldn't see a way of replacing the camera by then.

When I got back home, I decided that if the camera couldn't be repaired anyway, I had nothing to lose by forcing the lens casing back in. Much to my astonishment and delight, it went back in, then out again. It was working!!! I took a photo to make sure, and yes, it works!! I'm thrilled to bits and very very happy. I feel blessed and spoiled and as if a wonderful and unexpected gift had been sent my way.

I couldn't be so lucky twice, so I will make a resolution to do one thing at a time. I no longer have the ability to do several things at once, so from now on my philosophy will be "one at a time is good fishing"