I’m moving my office from Kennewick to Richland this week, and part of the move requires me to cancel phone and DSL services in one location while restarting them in another.

Oh boy, calling the phone company…one of my favorite tasks…

You would think that with one call I could make all the changes at once. But nope, it’s not that easy. Different departments perform different services and one operator sent me to another until I wore out the buttons on my telephone punching in all the different options I was supposed to navigate through to get to the department I needed to talk with.

I told one operator I wanted to cancel my old DSL service, and politely waited for her next question while she pulled up my records. Well, without asking me when I wanted to cancel, she went ahead and deleted my account that moment.

“Not yet,” I protested. “On April 2nd, not today!”

I couldn’t believe my ears. She didn’t know how to retrieve my account so had to find a higher-up in her office to help. Well, you can imagine…one person after the next takes part while hope is diminishing rapidly on my end of the phone. Eventually, she said it would be restored and assured me not to worry.

Well, the words sounded find, but in actual fact, my email service never was restored and I was told it would be 5-7 days before I could get it back. This was not encouraging news!

My heart sunk low. No email service for a week! What was I going to do….?

I prayed.

I decided that all communication is in Mind, not over telephone lines. That the communication of Mind never ceases, never stops, and is never interrupted. I understood that the activity of my practice was not at the mercy of the human mind and therefore it was not affected by incompetency, error, and mistakes. God ordered, organized and protected all relations with my patients, and I did not have to go through a 7 day waiting period for normalcy to be restored.

I truly found peace of mind about the whole fiasco and let my worry go that having no email for a week would be a problem.

No sooner did I lose my fear, but the idea came strongly to call a different number of the DSL company and ask for a tech person. I called, punched through my options for the umpteenth time, and ended up in a different place than ever before.

I found an intelligent young man who knew all the answers to my problems. Within 20 minutes, he restored my email, transferred my old account to my new one, and had me completely set up for my move. I thanked and praised God’s beneficent care during the whole conversation and thanked the tech guy profusely as well.

God is good!

I don’t know about you, but sometimes tech problems have appeared overwhelming and hopeless to solve to me. I’m not a tech oriented kind of guy. But I’ve learned through experience to not let my thinking fall to the level of despair and despondency when wondering what to do next. It’s a dark place down there. God always has a solution.

Rather than complaining and worrying, we can keep our thinking spiritually clear so God’s angel messages become apparent to us. God knows our need and supplies it before we ask. And there are no delays!

Listen! And you will hear. Answers will appear and solutions found.

Even phone companies are included in God’s plan of progress.

I can’t wait for the day when I don’t have to punch in all those menu options to get to where I need to be! Mind must have a better plan in the works…