Thought for the Day:
Back in 2013-2015, I had trouble with my eyes, which made much printed
material difficult or impossible for me to read. I needed a magnifying glass and bright light
to read, unless I used my Kindle Fire where I could increase the font size to
whatever size was comfortable. My
eyesight has since improved, but I still find it more comfortable to read on my
Kindle, in fact, I do almost all my reading on it now. It puts much less strain on my eyes than
printed material.
I haven’t been as consistent in bible reading as I want to be
lately. Last night I decided that I
would read my bible the first thing after breakfast. So after breakfast, I got out my Kindle as I had
planned; but every time I tried to open the bible, it would automatically shut
down. I tried several things on my own to
fix the problem which made no difference.
I did discover that I had the same issue with a couple of other books on
my device as well. This was apparently a
bigger problem than I first thought. I
poured through the Help section on my Kindle and found that it was misnamed.
Ha! Ha! I even went on-line but didn’t
find anything that made a difference. I
finally hit the Mayday button on my Kindle to get Tech Support. I was led through number of attempts to
correct the problem—reloading the book from the Cloud, emptying the Cache, etc.
(don’t ask me what those things really mean)—but it didn’t help.
Finally my Tech Advisor suggested that I do a Factory Reset. Everything on my Kindle Fire would be
erased. All the Books that I had
purchased were saved in the Cloud and those would be easily accessible to
download again. I’d lose some Apps, but
nothing that I couldn’t re-install.
So I did it. I hit the Factory
Reset button and wiped it all out…
It took some time to erase everything and then for the Kindle to start back
up again; but it worked! After about two
hours of fooling around, I could finally open the bible on the Kindle and read
it again. And as a side benefit, it
cleaned out a lot of programs and apps that I was thinking of getting rid of
anyway, freeing up a bunch of memory.
As I was working on the Kindle, it struck me how easy it is to get
distracted and derailed when attempting to something good to do, like reading
your bible, exercising, play with the kids, or whatever. This morning, I even reached a point where I
decided to grab my bible out of the cabinet and read it while I waiting for the
Kindle to start working. Of course, I
had only read a few lines in my good, old, leather bound bible before I noticed
that Kindle was finally repaired and I could now use it.
Huh! Funny how easy it is to get sidetracked from doing the most
important things, even after you’ve made a commitment to yourself that you will
do them. Despite the ever present
temptation to check your Face Book feed, your emails, or watch your favorite TV
program; we’ve got to set as our first priority to do the things that feed and
enrich our souls. I’ve found that it is
best for me to do the most important things (like bible reading) earlier in the
day, before doing too much else; otherwise I get distracted or something last
minute comes up. It’s all too easy to
find out at the end of the day that you just never got around to doing the
thing that you said was so important.
You might have to give up something else to get it done; but if it
really is a priority, then put it first in your life. And make it happen! And I know from past personal experience that
as I make that daily decision and actually do what I decided, it gets easier to
do it over time. Make a decision, and
keep making it happen each day. Soon it
will become a habit which can have a major impact on your life.
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