Last Saturday I went to visit some friends, and brought my digital camera with me, even though it had been kaputt (apparently broken, non-functioning) the last five weeks. It had been dropped, the lens was stuck, and something was rattling inside. It just didn’t work, man, and I was bummed. I had taken it to a camera shop in town, and had been told I could send it in and pay 15 dollars to have them say it was irreparable, or at least 100 dollars to have it fixed, if possible. I had decided to take it with me to the States and see if something could be done there, then on a whim, I brought it along to my friends and thought I would show it to them. I told them the story of my camera, but never thought to get it out of my bag. I was too busy admiring their really nice camera. ‘Is there sin in your life’, my friend asked, being a bit of a stinker. ‘Repent!’ So she was being a stinker, but I thought about something I wanted to get done that I kept putting off. I don’t think that was the reason, but anyway, this is the full story!

On the train ride home, I looked in my bag, saw my untouched camera, and smiling inside, had this thought. ‘God, wouldn’t it be great if I just pulled it out, turned it on, and it worked!’ Thought became action, and…. it works! I had it on video, so there’s a little clip of me telling the little boy with me that my camera works. Thank you, God! (And I really am thankful for my little Canon, and don’t have to have the Olympus from my cheeky friend.)