Prayer

Last night I was going to bed and walked past Heather's old Macbook Pro that was being torn apart. I knew Heather wanted the hard drive out of it to put into a case and plug into her new Macbook. I looked at all the intricate things in it and was fascinated really by the simplicity. I sat down next to it and saw that one of the metal boxes inside was the DVD drive. I looked at another, wondering if it was the HDD. I didn't have my glasses and couldn't read the fine print very well, but I could make out the number 250 and assumed it was a 250 GB hard drive. I also saw how it was "isolated" to protect it from shock by rubber feet that held it to the chassis. I saw that there was a bar with two screws that, if lifted, would allow the unit to come out. I thought that the screws had the "star" type, and knew I didn't have a tiny "star" wrench, but I did just pull a couple of hex wrench sets out of my car last week. They were in the kitchen so I went in and got them. I pulled out the littlest, but it didn't seem to fit. I tried the next and it was too big. I looked at the metric set and saw that the little one was bigger than the first, but there was a littler one. I pulled it out and it was too small. I tried the size larger and pushed it in. I didn't have my glasses so I couldn't see to be sure, but it fit and the screws came out easily! The bar came off and the entire HDD was free!

I wanted to see if it would fit into the external HDD case that Heather had bought to be able to plug it, her old disk drive, in to her new computer. It almost fit in, but there were the feet that needed to be removed. In order to remove them I couldn't see what type of screw it was so I tried the hex wrenches, and the smallest one fit!

With the feet removed, the HDD fit right into the case. I saw that this time I needed a Phillips screwdriver. I had searched the house last week for a screwdriver and couldn't find one, but my mom had just cleaned out the front of my car and brought in a bag and left it on the kitchen floor. While we were talking earlier that night I went through the bag, found a screwdriver, and put it into the drawer in the kitchen. Otherwise I wouldn't have known about it. I went and got the screwdriver and it fit the tiny screws. I put it all together and wondered if it would work as an external drive. I plugged it in, and it worked!

Heather was so excited! She told me that she had prayed that she would be able to get her hard drive to work that night. She thought that Chas would have the right tools, and he said he did so she drove to his house -- but he didn't. She came back and left the carcass of her old computer on the dining room table where I saw it as I was going to bed. I had no intention of fixing anything. I didn't have a goal to get her HDD working. I didn't even know about the problems she was having. If I had thought about the end result I would have thought it was too complicated, I was tired, and on my way to bed.

I am amazed at how much preparation went into answering a simple prayer by a child of God.
1. Almost a week ago, I needed the time to clean out my car and find those hex wrenches and put them in the drawer where they were easily accessible. This is something I haven't done in over a year! One of the sets would not do, I needed both -- one wrench from each.
2. Several days ago, my mom had to clean out my front seat and take everything into the house where I would find the screwdriver I didn't even know I had, and put it into the drawer.
3. I had to walk by and be interested in the computer innards that I had never even seen before.
4. I was directed to take each step without knowing there would even be another step because I was tired and going to bed. What I thought were "star" screws turned-out to be hex screws, I just couldn't see them. I would not have tried the hex wrenches if I had not been prompted. If the tools were not immediately accessible I would not have searched for them, I would have just gone to bed. I didn't have my glasses and couldn't see very well, but each step was easy, and it flowed, as if I was being directed on what to do.  I had no intention of putting it all together that night.

If any one of these was not in place at that time, the work would not have been done. The amount of preparation required to get Heather's prayer answered is staggering! All of the people and things involved are enormous! There are no co-incidences. I know the Lord knows His children; He loves them and answers their prayers -- even before they ask. Who knows, if Heather hadn't asked, I may have gone to bed my usual way through the family room instead of the dining room, and wouldn't have passed by her old torn-apart computer... and all that preparation would have been for naught! Maybe that's why we need to pray.