Don't Lose Your Salvation Over It . . .

What an awesome way to think about those things that are bugging you!  "Don't lose your salvation over it!"

Remember I mentioned that we had a church golf outing a few weeks ago?  Well, I've been working on the photos and videos I took.  I'm making them into a "production" that we can watch on the video screen at church.  It's been a lot of work, and I've probably put in about 30 hours trying to get it just right.  I had the video part done, and had the girls help me with the music.  The problem we had was that I wanted to use the audio from the videos, so the music would be quiet, and then would be louder when the photos were being shown.  I was using a rather complicated program and things were just not going my way.   I was REALLY trying to have it done for church today, especially since I told Pastor Will last week that it would be ready for viewing this week.

I thought I had it all done last night, and then the music wasn't working the way I wanted it to.  Erica was going to help me, but she bailed, and then I convinced Abby to help.  You know kids are so much better at this stuff than us "old" folks!  LOL

Abby had figured most of it out, but this morning it was still messed up.  The girls had done what they could, and it wasn't because of anything they did.  Every time I tried to save the video in a format that I could put onto a CD and play on another computer, it would hang up at 2:30.  The video was 4:30 long, so it was halfway through that it would hang.  ARGH!

I tried everything I could think of, and finally had to give up.  It was getting late, and we were already going to be late for church.  When we got there, I saw Pastor Will and told him that I didn't have the golf video available today.  He said that it was OK, and I told him "No, it's not.  I had been working on it and working on it and it was VERY frustrating, because it wasn't going the way I wanted it to.  His next words to me shook me to my very core.  He said "well, don't lose your salvation over it."

Think about that for just a moment . . . what did that mean?  Not only was he telling me not to worry about it, but he was telling me it wasn't that big of a deal and it wasn't worth getting so upset about.   And he was also telling me that God loves me, and in the scheme of things it wasn't worth getting so worked up about.  I don't think that Pastor Will realized how profound that statement was for me.  That is something that I will forever remember!    I can't thank Pastor Will for what I'm sure sure he felt was a rather "benign" statement!

So, just remember, when little things start getting to you and you get frustrated "don't lose your salvation over it!"

Godspeed!

Julie