burial – Nancy Tart: Writing for Life

November 10, 2018

Reset, Again

In the last blog (Proper Burial) I mentioned that Rebeccah likes to tinker with stuff. She often fixes electronics when we think they are broken.

She had our playstation 2 unit scattered apart on the table (for the 5^th time). After hours and her final conclusion of “I have no clue what’s wrong with this thing!” she decided it was truly trash.

She always puts the garbage electronics back together like they were supposed to be – search me as to why (maybe because I once told her that sometimes resetting something was all it needed to come back to life) but she claims “a proper burial” for broken electronics is with the item totally back together.

So after Rebeccah put the Playstation 2 console back together for its “proper burial,” it now works. (It was bought used and had a short since day one, sometimes the CD tray got stuck, and lately it would just choose to die.) For days, that console has been working great. She reset it back to “original” after cleaning every part in it and it has new life!

I’ve been considering that for some time.

Sometimes God wants us to close the doors on something old and leave it buried. Sometimes he wants us to reset it. Maybe what we’re resetting isn’t so much the item as it is our way of thinking.

The playstation console’s brain just needed all the dust cleaned out, everything disconnected and reconnected, and the source of power reset. Yes, this was the 5^th time!

Maybe we need to allow God to reset the way we think – clean all the garbage out of our brain and connect all the synapses to what we’re supposed to think about (remember, whatever is good, just, lovely, think on these things?) instead of dwelling on misfires like our failures… hmm.

Is that a lot to think about because I saw the inside of a playstation brain cleaned and now it works? Maybe. But I like to analyze things… maybe I analyze stuff too much.

I try to allow God to renew my mind daily. (He says each new day is fresh in Him.) Thinking about the things I see in life (like a silly piece of electronics) working according to God’s design helps me think that all things obey God. (I know, silly, but if it helps me be encouraged, maybe it will help someone else!)

Thanks for reading!

Type at you later…

~Nancy Tart

November 8, 2018

Proper Burial

Rebeccah likes to tinker with stuff. She always has. Most of the time, she can fix electronics when we think they are broken.

If it is headed for the trash, she always gives it at least one try (and she likes seeing the “guts” of the item too).

Today it was the playstation 2 unit (for the 5^th time). We bought it used in the first place and it had a short from day one. Rebeccah has fiddled with it four times successfully, but this morning, all of her efforts led to naught. She had it completely apart. Every breadboard, wire, connection, screw, etc. was separated in her ordered little piles. (Conclusion was “I have no clue what’s wrong with this thing!”)

So I’m trying to work on “Fibbing Fishermen” (#5, it will be out soon) in the Devonians series when I hear Kimberly show up:

Kimberly: “Becky, what are you doing?”

Rebeccah: “Putting it back together.”

Kimberly: “I thought it was really garbage this time?”

Rebeccah: “Yes, but when something dies, we should at least bury it in a proper casket.”

…

Seriously? For me, this was just apropos timing. We’ve closed a business, I’ve started a totally unexpected but awesome job, life is shifting into a strange limbo for us right now, and every time we turn around it appears something else is stealing something of value from us.

Bury it. Wrap it and every part of it back in the casket and hide it from sight. That so made me laugh.

Perhaps that’s what God wants us to do with these remaining bits of the past; bury them completely. Hide them away so we are fully open to what God has planned next!

For me, right now, it’s pretty awesome: my job is teaching children (I love this!) and I get to expose each of y’all to something I’ve always wanted to do (gymnastics) as a perk! Granted, we can’t live on this income alone; but it is something I can do very well. I’ve felt a peace about our life right now despite the fact that our insurance is due in 8 days and we are $1350 short, I can’t focus on that. All I can do it do my best and let God take care of the rest.

God will provide a way.

***NOTE*** You know what’s really funny? After Rebeccah put that Playstation 2 console back together for its “proper burial,” it now works. No short, no sticking CD tray, no dying. She and Lucas have been playing football for almost an hour now and no issues. Even though she couldn’t find the problem, just resetting everything back the way it was supposed to be fixed the problem. (It is almost time to go to work so, I’ll think about that more later!)

Thanks for reading!

Type at you later…

~Nancy Tart

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