Face forward - even if not moving forward

I had a couple of remarkable incidents this week. The first was replacement adjustment knobs for a K&M microphone boom stand. Our little church has had this stand for years and has taken a lot of abuse. At first, it seemed these knobs wouldn’t be available to purchase. An e-mail to Germany to the manufacturing company changed that. I received four replacement knobs Thursday from the Canadian distributor. A PDF of the exploded parts drawing was also sent for future reference. Sweet. I love that company!

Secondly, I am in school to finish off the last course for a Mechanical Engineering Technology diploma. The instructor from the previous class recommended an award-winning software program aimed at helping newbies like me learn applied loads and stresses and how to graph or plot them. The last 5 weeks have been a reckless stream of confusion trying to understand the math and concepts. Last weekend I was a mess, crying out to God to help me understand and not squander this opportunity He has given me through my work at this time. I use the experience of Daniel and his three friends as a source of inspiration that education can be God-ordained when it’s for His purposes (see Daniel 1: 3-7). God also provides wisdom to those who ask for it (James 1: 5). Anyway, the software was so good at visually showing the concepts, I decided to bite the bullet and purchase a student license for the software. But the website wouldn’t accept my PayPal account because of certain purchasing restrictions. What to do?

I contacted the professor who created the software directly by e-mail. I explained the situation and asked him where I could send a cheque. It wasn’t overly expensive for a license, but I prefer to legitimately own any software I have. He responded back with a complimentary license! How wonderful is that?!

And yes, finally, my brain is grasping the math concepts. PTL.

Upon returning home from work today, I thought about checking my marks via the online portal from my college.

Maybe they will be posted from the final exam taken Wednesday...

Maybe....and they were! As you already know by the post title, I did pass this sememster's class. It was a lot of tough math and balancing work, volunteering and sometimes wacky sleep patterns!

One more class to go!