We knew it was coming, someday. Jillian’s been using and abusing her original iPhone for years now. Her phone had the ability to take what she dished out and still continue to run. It’s back was missing part of its cover, leaving the copper colored antenna exposed. Her front faceplate was cracked — everywhere — and yet still responded to the touch she needed for texting. We thought about bringing her phone into Apple, because honestly, it was in wretched shape and yet still kept going.
Until tonight.
At 9:36 on Saturday night, Jillian’s iPhone was pronounced suddenly, irrevocably dead. And in that moment her life came crashing down. She is 16, after all, and older and more mature people than she have been devastated when their phones go flying off of Thunder Mountain at Disney World, for instance. (Yes, that was my adventure last week.) I understood her tears and frustration.
Before three minutes had passed, David was off the couch and headed to the mall, which is mercifully open late due to Christmas. By 10:07 he was headed home with a new, shiny iPhone. It was an extreme solution for JIllian, but as David headed off on his mission he began pondering.
You see, Jillian has had a difficult year this year. Like her iPhone, she is maybe a bit beat up and feeling it. I know we are feeling it. But God has a solution for her, and us. He’s always ready to reach down into space and time to give us a new life. No words of condemnation, no regrets, just a new life for the old.
I don’t know if Jillian sees the metaphor of her original, beat up iPhone or not, but I do. And just like her daddy was ready t make it all new, her heavenly daddy is ready to make life new again, too. For all of us.
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Poor iPhone. Praying for you guys, and hope you have a merry christmas.
I needed to be reminded of this today. Thanks. Merry Christmas.