One month ago God moved in the heart of someone very precious to me and she gave me her Mac computer. I had been praying for a Mac for nearly two years. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord.

For just over a week now I've been in the beautiful country of India, bombarded with all of its interesting sights and smells and people that instantly attached themselves to the strings of my heart. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

Three nights ago someone was using my computer when it crashed. Dead. We tried every trick we knew to revive it but there was nothing. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

As I rode the bus after lunch I sat by an Indian woman named Angela. When the bus assistant came to collect the money I heard God tell me that I should pay her way. 5 rupees, what's that? Maybe $0.10? I tried to get it out in time but the guy came too soon. She handed him the money in her hand, but though I didn't understand the language, his yelling told me she hadn't given enough. I paid her way and stepped off the bus, amazed that I had sensed the whole thing before it happened. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

Three days ago on our very crowded bus ride home, as I was fighting the mob of people to get off at the right stop, I got off only to realize that, in the human traffic jam, someone had stolen my wallet. Cards, cash, driver's license, gone. Our pastor friend rode the bus to the end of the route, checking everyone as they got off. "Rebecca, my dear, I didn't find it," was his only reply. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

For a reason I didn't know at the time, yesterday morning I decided to take some of my personal ATM cards and my passport out of my wallet. When I got back last night, I broke down in tears because I realized that God had forseen what I had not, and had made the loss minimal. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

Last night as I drifted off the sleep, I smiled in satan's face and told him that he could try all he wanted, but I knew whose I was, and that was reason enough for joy. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

This morning I woke up with my left eye almost totally swollen shut. Ever seen the movie Hitch? I looked like Will Smith (minus the gigantic ears). I went to the hospital (they directed me to the Casualty section), and got a prescription. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

I went to the only Apple store around today only to have the man confirm that my computer was, in fact, dead. It would only cost me $180 to fix it but since I had lost over $300 of my personal money yesterday, that was no longer an option. 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

This afternoon the infection spread to my right eye also, making me quite the sight to behold. Satan seemed to have given me one swollen eye last night, and knocked me in the other later today, but you know what I told him? "Dude, I WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT!" 

Blessed be the Name of the Lord. 

The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!!!