Tracking Packages

It completely fascinates me that I can track a package that is being sent to me.

After my computer made it clear last week that it was going to bite the dust, I asked our tech guy at church, AKA church secretary, AKA “the high and mighty and all-knowing computer guru” to go ahead and wipe the machine and start over. My documents, 24 gb of them, representing over 20 years of work, writing, messages, letters, photos and journals, were all safely backed up with an online service, so felt sure I could get everything back OK.

However, the best laid plans, as they say . . . Anyway, after some real, absolute panic that I might not actually be able to retrieve my stuff by an easy download, I decided to have the back-up service burn everything to DVD’s and ship them to me. Not cheap, but definitely worth it by easing my concerns.

They’ll be delivered this morning–just checked, and they were loaded on a FedEX truck at 8:10 a.m.

Below is the whole process from this morning back to the original order:

Aug 18, 2011 8:10 AM On FedEx vehicle for delivery FORT WORTH, TX

Aug 18, 2011 7:11 AM At local FedEx facility FORT WORTH, TX

Aug 18, 2011 3:59 AM At destination sort facility DALLAS, TX

Aug 18, 2011 2:52 AM Departed FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN

Aug 18, 2011 12:12 AM Arrived at FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN

Aug 17, 2011 6:50 PM Left FedEx origin facility OREM, UT

Aug 17, 2011 3:53 PM Picked up OREM, UT

Aug 17, 2011 2:09 PM Shipment information sent to FedEx

I’m just thinking: if I can track a package this easily, maybe it is not so hard for God to know when a single hair falls from my head. Maybe, just maybe, nothing does happen outside God’s watch. Maybe, just maybe, our daily joys and challenges are being woven together into a holy whole, a tapestry of eternity of which we make up just an infinitesimal portion, yet integral to the finished product.

So goeth the morning musings here.