Laptop lament?

It is snowing today. It started yesterday, even had some white-out conditions. I was glad that I had no where to go, so I could just stay home. For Hannah, Nathan and me, it was a stay-at-home weekend. We’ve all been battling some bug, wore us out, gave us fevers, some nice congestion to boot. My fevers tend to linger, so I get on with life as best I can.
This past weekend was not a stay-at-home one for Kelly. He was at a country-wide Baptist youth leaders retreat. He was exhausted going into the weekend! If he wasn’t teaching a session on leadership, he probably would have stayed at home too. Just since the beginning of November, he’s been to Prague for a conference, then we both went to Holland via Czech and Germany for a GEM-YM retreat, stopping off in Cologne/Koln, Germany on our way home. Then he went to a weekend retreat for our youth group (I stayed home with Lani, Hannah went to Vienna, and Nathan was with Dad.). Then this weekend, when we had an interesting experience.. well, Kelly and the gang there did.
While they slept, somewhere between 3 and 6 am on Sunday, someone broke into the place they were sleeping and stole a bunch of stuff. At first, Kelly thought that they’d gotten away with his passport, car papers, international driver’s license, key for the house, car and church. But, those items were found, along with Bible and books that had been in his computer bag. What was missing, and still is, is his laptop, camera, iPod and shaving kit. Other people had a laptop, cell phones, money, even shoes stolen. And somehow, I find this rather funny!
Before Michelle and Emily left for the US (soon to return!!), Michelle was talking about the new laptop she was getting. One that Kelly also would have loved to buy. He was trying to figure some way to justify the purchase, but really couldn’t. The problem with a Mac is that it is such a good machine, that even at 3 years old, it is reliable. Darn! So, Kelly learned to be content with his machine, content to wait until next year to replace it. Then, just a day after he tells some of the people at the retreat that he is content, the laptop gets stolen.
Do you ever wonder why God allows such stuff to happen? I think, as far as this laptop is concerned, God wanted to hear from Kelly’s lips that he was content. Now it is gone, Kelly really NEEDS, not just wants, a replacement, so now he’ll get his new laptop. still not sure how we’ll pay for it, but I’m not too worried!
That’s just my thought….