No, I’m not going to school, unless you count the school of hard knocks. “Phd” stands for “Piled higher and deeper.” That’s what it feels like so far this week.
As you probably know, if you’ve been keeping up with our blog, we got the computer changes made for the updated FM broadcast computer. That was Saturday night and all seemed well Sunday. But on Monday the gremlins came in swarms and they continue to stream out of the woodwork today. There are all sorts of strange things happening on the network — things like copying files and finding that some are at their destination and some are not, file names changing by themselves, computers disappearing from the network and coming back on their own, and so on. (Virus scans are negative!) On top of that, the studio air conditioner has started acting up. Our mower is on the fritz and we are expecting VIP visitors in about 10 days.
The shoulder I injured last November is needing almost 10 hours of therapy a week. And there are countless other things I need to fix or invent on top of getting ready for the project to replace the guy wires on our AM tower. As you will hear in the Update below, I found some rust at the base of our new aluminum FM tower that has stainless steel fasteners. Things really do seem to be getting piled higher and deeper. Or, as my mom would say, “The hurrier I do, the behinder I get.” Hmm… that sounds familiar. I guess I’ve said it here before, but that was almost two years ago. 
It feels a little overwhelming sometimes. So today I stopped to remind myself about what it was like in the days following my surgery when I got the titanium plate in my right wrist and had a cast on the other hand. I guess this hasn’t been all that tough of a week after all. And compared to the life the Apostle Paul led, even that time in my life was like a walk in the park. Paul really had his priorities squared away. “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” — Romans 8:18. In my reading, I found that at the Nicene Council, of the 318 delegates attending, fewer than 12 had not lost an eye or a hand or did not limp on a leg lamed by torture for their Christian faith. I guess I can put up with balky computers and malfunctioning machines to help share the Good News to these islands. In fact, if 1 Corinthians 9:16 is true — and it is, I’d better keep it up. “For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.” There is nothing better than being where God wants you to be and doing what He wants you to do. May we all lean on the Lord’s strength while we work on our Phd’s.
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