Normal Service Resumes (almost)
16/October/2007 Filed in:
JottingsA fraught and expensive few days. The G4 duly died in mid-back-up (blessed be God) just as the proofs for the Catholic Directory of England and Wales were expected and final copy for the Portsmouth Diocesan Year Book was being outputted. We now have a new Mac and Digitalnun is grey from lack of sleep as she tries to make up for lost time (blessed be God); the bursar is whey-faced at the number of zeros on the invoice (blessed be God); and our guests look a bit pale, too, as the standard of catering has slipped while we concentrate on IT and finance (blessed be God). In short, the kind of problem people face every day, which we have coped with as best we can, grateful there was enough in the bank account to enable us to replace the faulty machine, slightly concerned about the economies we can make in the future. To bless God and not curse when one is feeling devastated (and even the loss of a computer can make one feel devastated) is not "pi in the sky", provided one can be honest about what one feels. It is, rather, a way of finding peace in the midst of the storm —something most of us aim at but achieve only imperfectly, if at all. It is humbling to think where Jesus found his peace during his last days on earth.