This past weekend our lead pastor spoke about interruptions and how God can use them or WILL use them for His purpose. Experiencing occasional interruptions on any given day is not unusual for me, but to be honest with you–I don’t respond to them very well. I like my time . I like order to my day. I like being  in charge of my day.  Yet, having confessed that particular shortcoming of mine, I also need to contradict myself and admit that I DO like interruptions–when they are from God. In fact, this morning during my quiet time of reading and prayer I asked God to interrupt me today. Faithful that He is, He did.

About 9 am I was in the process of preparing my breakfast and had my IPhone on the edge of the kitchen counter. All it took was a small nudge from my elbow and the phone landed in the sink, in a pan with a small amount of water in it.  Just enough to cover the bottom of the phone where the charging and headphones ports are located. That misfortunate mishap that lasted less than 5 seconds became a major interruption to my morning.

I stayed calm. I reached out to our daughter who is employed by AT&T. She gave me a couple of tips, neither of which fixed my issue so I made a trip to the nearest  repair facility she recommended. $95 later my phone is back to optimum performance.

The repair took less than an hour which was plenty of time for me to do some continuing research on a scripture verse. I chose Genesis 1:1 to compare in three different versions and find the definitions of “beginning”, “God”, “created”, “heavens” and “earth”. My findings are the topic of another blog entry, but I will leave you with this to ponder. The Hebrew word for “created” is bara’ (Strong’s #1254) It means “brought concept or object into being from previously non-existent material”. I was sitting in the mall food court when I read that and I almost squealed with delight. Wow…’previously non-existent material’….what an interruption! what a concept to meditate on and journal in my notebook.

Am I pleased that I spent $95 that wasn’t part of today’s budget? No. Am I thrilled about an interruption that gave me time to discover the definition of but ONE word in a scripture that has caused decades of debate? Absolutely.

When I asked God to interrupt me today, I really meant “maybe someone needs to hear an encouraging word from me..let me give you some wise counsel” kind of break in my day’ or “ask me about the hoodie I’m wearing that bears the logo Celebrate Recovery’. Nope. He needed to humble me with a financial trip to a repair shop in order to discover riches in the meaning of a simple yet profound word.

Two lessons today. Do not set a phone near sources of water. God is able to make something out of nothing.