Of all the nerve! I spent a good 45 minutes writing this wonderful blog entry — very spiritual and encouraging, mind you — and my web browser simply shut down. First time I’ve ever had that happen. I had two windows open and both just closed on their own. Poof! My brilliance was gone. I think I shall make that my final lesson in this blog business (I have lost other entries, just not from the browser closing) and begin writing my entries in Notepad first, then copying and pasting them into my blog.
The non-spiritual part of my brilliant blog post was about getting to work today on my new book. And since I cannot get back those lost 45 minutes, I shall have to skip trying to recall the words for a blog post and drum up new words for my new WIP instead.
The spiritual part was about Luke 11:9-13. Perhaps God has something special for you if you go read them for yourself. Perhaps that’s why my post disappeared.
Lord, teach us to pray!
In the grip of His grace,
Robin
Since we KNOW beyond any reasonable doubt that hurricanes are God’s judgment on sinners – hey, I read those blogs! – isn’t it obvious that God is preventing you from saying something evil? Thus He sends a spirit of spastic fingers to push the wrong keys or some protecting spirit to make your computer crash (unless, of course, you are using a Mac, which is infested with demons at the factory).
C’mon, be sensitive to the Spirit, will ya’?
Mike, I do not use a Mac, but I have a number of Mac-using friends who will undoubtedly be praying for you — or coming to get you. {{grin}}
Losing a whole entry has happened to me a few times. Now most of the time, before trying to post the entry with the cursor in the entry, hit Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C. That copies it into the clipboard and if the browser crashes I can paste into another editor. Then when I get back to the write page, I can just paste the entry.
On the practical side: The habit of saving whatever you are working on every few minutes can be very helpful. (Doesn’t your blog have save a draft feature?) But understandibly, this is easy to forget when you are in the flow of wrtiting.
On the spiritual side: Mike, I think it’s a feeble attempt of Satan trying to prevent Robin from say something good 😉
So you’ve started your new book? How many pages did you write? I’d love for you to come up with a challenge: Robin writes 10 pages/her readers write 10 pages. Robin writes 15 pages/her readers write 15 pages. Mmmmm, I wonder if could keep up.