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Well, it seems we are nearly in the clear. Our phone was disconnected due to HUGE billing errors on the part of our PREVIOUS phone company (well, almost previous). They have been billing us the wrong amounts, not billing us, starting new accounts, telling us wrong information, and threatening disconnects that they said should be disregarded … SINCE APRIL. So, Wednesday morning their computer system finally decided to turn off our phone. That was bad.

Today, after spending nearly ALL of the last two days on the phone with them (using our neighbor’s phone, or ours – you can call EXCEL, but not anyone else – and we could not receive calls) we finally have our service restored.

The funniest part in all of this is that I saw again how in the minor stuff, I still am not like Daniel. Daniel was so cool when stuff did not go his way… when he was treated unfairly. In the worhsip service we did on Wednesday, Troy was talking about Dan 6 – the lion’s den story… and just helped me see again the complete surrender of Daniel to his God. Really. I’m just talking about not having a phone for two days… which was completely annoying.. but Daniel was injustly treated and it was going to cost him his life.

And we have no record of him putting up a fight. No record of complaining about unjust treatment. Just simple lived-out faith in God to save him — or not. It was a cool pitcure of complete surrender. Troy called it "Looking Up". Whenever a minor or major bump in the road came Daniel looked up to God for help. Didn’t try to do anyting on his own… just trusted God’s goodness, faithfulness and ability to come through.

With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

God, help me remember to not take on the world myself when things get twisted (and they WILL get twisted…) but to look up and peacefully trust you.