Computer from the Sky

We had been saving up for a new (well... used, but new to us) laptop and we were about 1/3 of the way there after our garage sale when a computer seems to have dropped out of the sky! Nils was walking home from work and found a computer lying in the street. After assessing the scene and realizing it was not a lost computer but a discarded one, he scooped it up to have a closer look. It was pretty beaten up and had probably been run over by a car.... but after a little tinkering he realized that the hard drive still worked and was actually faster than our current one but the screen and the mouse did not work (making it pretty hard to use). This turned out to be just what we needed!

Our home computer was getting slow and it also had a broken screen that we were making do with. Our screen was broken on the hinge and we had to baby the right side where it often detached from the laptop and made the screen go black. This new found computer had a working hinge but the actual LCD panel of the screen did not function. So... Nils was able to fix the mouse and take the inside of our screen off and put it into the inside of the found computer.

I am amazed at my husband's handy skills. While he has always been good with technology, he does not refurbish computers on a regular basis. He had to check a few on-line resources while he worked and the only computer that could connect to the internet at that time was the new found one with a completely blank screen. So... he plugged this computer into an older monitor to navigate through what should have been on the screen and read about which wires to cut as he snipped away on that same live computer. He likened this experience to brain surgery in which the patient has to be awake during the procedure. Wow.

Whether this was a computer from the sky or a moment of great recycling, I am grateful that my needs... and even more... are always taken care of. Today I am reminded that the things I need (and want) are not all bought and sold by my careful planning or spontaneous choices. Sometimes there is a Provider who can step in with a gift. This gift of a computer makes me happy because it was a very nice gift with monetary value, but it makes me smile even more because it was "just what I wanted!" How did He know? I'm always surprised by how well the God of the Universe knows my little life.