Surrender Miracle, part 2

-continued from yesterday's post, Surrender Miracle, part 1-

I pushed the button and left to do something. When I came back, the password window was up. I couldn't believe it. Before that it wouldn't let us get to the password window, system bios, or safe mode at all, just circle in a failed boot cycle. I entered my password and it booted up completely. I broke down in tears.

Several system scans later revealed a trojan horse infecting the system including embedded files in system restore. We should not have been able to get back in. I don't care what skeptics say, that was a direct answer to prayer--a miracle that came only after I surrendered to God.

The first thing I did was retrieve the scholarship applicant contact info, but something more happened.

To match applicants to their applications, I asked them to resend. Someone sent me one that matched none of the stripped applications. I wondered if she misunderstood and thought I would accept more applications, but I learned she had sent it during the entry period and it either never reached me or was accidentally deleted. If computer problems had not happened, I never would have known it. God must have wanted her application read.

Fortunately, we were able to put it back into the mix and hold a second round of judging. And that second round turned out to be needed to make a clear determination for all of them.

Through all of this, I've concluded that no experience, good or bad, goes unused for God's glory. One way or the other, God will be glorified, and it's up to us to determine what part we want to have in that glorification. Thanks be to God, He allows us to acknowledge ours sins and correct our paths.

Someone say amen!

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