Media Missionary Focus

Timing is Everything

Have you every been around someone who is trying to clap along with the beat of a song that is playing and they just can't get it? It can be almost painful to watch! Or maybe you've seen an all-star baseball player who is in a slump and can't hit a pitch thrown by a 70 year old grandmother. Or a basketball player who can't drain a free throw to save his life. When your timing is off, it's can really be OFF.

On the other hand, when your timing is on, and your in "the zone" good things just seem to fall into your lap and you can't loose.

Most of us live somewhere between these extremes. Today I'm wondering where I fall on that track. Let me explain.

I am currently writing from Springfield, MO. I came here primarily to work on a video project that will be used as part of an effort to target unreached peoples throughout Asia-Pacific with the gospel. Great. So while I am here I had decided to try to get some other things done. One of those things was to pick up a new computer to use with our video work in Cambodia, so I had special ordered exactly what we needed from Dell before I came to the States sop that it would be here ready to go when I arrived. Well, it was here, but as I was working with it here I found that one of the critical features wasn't working. After spending 4 hours on the phone with Dell's tech support it came down to needing to replace the computer. So they would build and ship a new one to me, I would put the old one back in the box, and then ship it back to Dell. Fine. However, this all happened 4 days before I was supposed to leave to return to Cambodia. So I changed my flight schedule so that I would be around for 4 more days, hopefully enough time to get the new computer. Well, my time has almost run out. I am scheduled to leave in 2 days and still no computer. So for me to get it in time they would have to ship it by this evening.

So is my timing off? I'm not so sure. Even if the computer doesn't come on time and I have to leave without it, I have been able to get a number of things done this week that have opened a number of other opportunities I otherwise would not have had. So does that mean I am in "the zone"? Ask me again after I find out if the computer makes it in time...

posted by Troy In Cambodia @ 7:28 PM