Website Madness & the Goodness of God
My website had a nervous breakdown last night while I was sleeping. When I put my little head down on the pillow, all was well in my little corner of cyberspace. In fact, it was downright great. My website grade, according to Hubspot’s fabulous website grader tool, was up to 73 (on a scale of 100). Then, by a cruel twist of fate (aka an upgrade from Yahoo Sitebuilder) all went haywire. Now all my beautiful content-rich, keyword-corrected, meta-tagged to perfection pages are suddenly out of whack.
Here’s the irony: someone went on my haywire website this afternoon and placed the largest single book order I’ve had in ages: 70 copies of my latest book, Becoming the Woman God Wants Me To Be: A 90-Day Guide to Living the Proverbs 31 Life. 70 copies! Wow, that totally works for me.
I’m not entirely sure what message God is trying to send me. Perhaps that perfection is over-rated and that He, not Hubspot, has the last word about website success. Or that all the technological glitches in the world can’t stand in the way of a blessing God is determined to deliver to one of his kids.
Those of us who make at least part of our living on cyberspace should strive for excellence. We should know what we’re doing in our respective business enterprises and seek to offer quality products and services. But in the end, if we are people of faith, we have to walk by faith. We have to trust that the God we claim loved us enough to clothe himself in frail humanity is big enough to compensate for our human frailties and the frailties of the internet.
This child of the King is shutting down the computer, walking away from cyberworld and going to watch Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale with my kids. Maybe when I wake up, my corner of this world wide web will be restored to a thing of beauty. For sure, it will be a demonstration of his grace. No matter what, God’s got my back. Of that, I am certain.
Blessings,
