Frustrating Day

Well... I had on my schedule to write a new post at 7:30am today.  But, it's now 5:00pm and I'm just getting to it... why?  because I've spent the better part of the day rebuilding my files on my hard drive.  I didn't lose everything because the computer didn't crash... what happened was completely MY FAULT--that's what makes it so frustrating.  I'm not sure what I did, but I was cleaning out some space on my hard drive and I went to empty my trash and there was no more Journey Church folder.  All my documents, all my movies, all my church stuff, all my messages, everything was gone.  Now, here's my big pitch for Mac's new Leopard Operating System, which I don't have...yet.  If I had it, it could have retrieved what inadvertently threw out... I've already ordered it!  So... I'm stuck the entire day searching on external hard drives for back up files... I did back up everything in March, so, I only lost 8 months of stuff!  Man, am I bummed... But, here's the good news... as frustrating as it was, and as much as I wanted to hurl my MacBook Pro like a frisbee, I chose to control my emotions simply look at it as a learning experience.  Naaaah-- I cried like a baby and screamed at the top of my lungs and pounded my desk and cried out to God to remind Him that this would be a great time for a lesson on grace... you know... I deserved to lose everything, but just when I thought it was all over, God, who is rich in mercy, revealed the lost file on a tiny corner of the hard drive... I didn't deserve it because I was a bonehead... but He poured out grace... well, that didn't happen!  But God is still full of grace and I'm so grateful for a whole lot of other things that happened today...I got to see God work through our people to rally around a family when the husband/father had surgery... I got to pick up my teenagers from their last day of school today and take them to lunch and even in the middle of all the frustration, I got my message ready for this weekend.