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IVSO keyboard for iPad
For my birthday, I got a new iPad…so awesome! My mother-in-love bought me a keyboard to go with it, but for some reason it shipped from Tonga. Yeah, I had to google that, but I am geographically challenged so I google everything. We waited patiently and with perfect timing, it “arrived” on my actual birthday…except it didn’t. No big deal; I can wait…I’m a big girl after all. But alas, it never showed up. I text messaged my mother-in-love and she emailed the company to check on it. The company sent another keyboard free of charge, and we waited patiently again. However, this time she sent me the tracking number and I tracked that baby every step of the way. I also kept checking her mail box and PO box just to make sure the other one never showed up. Two weeks after the second one shipped, it arrived at a post office I wasn’t checking (she uses two post offices…long story - I’ll spare you). I called the post office ahead of time (having learned my lesson the first time) and checked to see if they indeed had it. After about 10 minutes of the very nice lady looking around, she laid eyes on it! I checked their hours (another lesson learned) and planned my trip to go pick it up with extreme excitement. We got there, the keyboard is in hand and currently being used as I type (it’s fantastic, by the way. Research pays off). 

You’ll notice the second time around that I paid better attention to details. With the first keyboard, I trusted that it would just show up and I wasn’t really paying attention to the problems that might pop up when something is shipped from an island on the other side of Australia (Side note: The island looks beautiful and I’d love to visit). It seems like this happens a lot; we enter a situation innocently with no idea what might happen, and then we learn from our experiences. When we face the same situation again, we face it with maturity and the ability to predict what needs to be watched for.

The same goes in the spiritual world…or maybe that’s where our awareness comes from. Either way, it applies spiritually. When we enter God’s family, we approach our new life innocently naive and with excitement. As we face different spiritual opposition, we learn new lessons, spiritual defense tactics and ways to approach certain situations. God teaches how to navigate difficult things and we mature as we grow in our relationship with Him. We become more aware of our surroundings and can identify when problems are popping up. Discernment is given to His children and we explore this world with His eyes. With His eyes and heart, we can see what’s coming and know how to deal with it. Sure, we get blindsided sometimes when we aren’t paying attention, but God shows us how we can avoid problems next time or how to improve. Each experience is a learning process. I think sometimes we view these mistakes as a failure, but I think God wants us to see it as learning and maturing in Him. With each trial, we see more of His character.

That’s my prayer for you: that you see His character in all your trials. I hope that you can learn from all your mistakes with His teaching. I’m praying that He guide you through difficult situations. My ultimate desire is for you to become closer to Him and to learn more from Him. 

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