The Best Laid Plans...

I've been working on a project with our pastor to get a video message ready to submit to Lifechurch for this year's One Prayer series. It's really cool project if you've never heard of it where churches around the world join together and all teach on a certain topic...this year being Unstoppable.

So we have made a couple of videos and gotten those edited together and we shot our message early this week and then Pastor Phillip and I got together last night and spent about 2.5 hours editing and working on it. We had it very nearly completed. My plans were to come home tonight and spend a couple of hours putting the finishing touches on it and then create our movie file to submit.

And that's when things went wrong. I needed to clear out some hard drive space so I would have room to write my video, so I started combing through directories and culling out the trash. I very casually hit delete on a directory that I thought was all trash...and it was, all except for the raw video from when we shot our message!

Gone...deleted...and apparently too big to recover (I tried). We went from 90% of the way home on this project to significantly behind the eight ball, just like that. I felt sick to my stomach...truthfully. I got pretty upset with myself for doing something sooooo stupid, something I've warned others about a thousand times. Then I had to make the call to Pastor Phillip. He took it WAY better than I did...and thanks again for that Phillip!!!

I have an idea for possibly being able to get back to where we were before the night started...I'm going to try that tomorrow. But Phillip pointed out a couple of other ways around the problem as well and I'm confident that, come Monday, we'll have something to submit for this year of which we can be proud.

The point is, we're gonna mess up sometimes when we're doing work for God. It's important not to sit around wallowing in frustration and anger (like I was), even if it's directed at yourself. We have to hang in there and find ways around the roadblocks and not let it discourage us from continuing in our efforts. It's also important to remember that we aren't alone in our efforts and that there are people around us that we can fall back on who will help lift us up.

I'm going to be taking the weekend off from writing the blog, so look forward to my next report on Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!