Reboot

Another of Lamott’s Twelve Truths I Have Learned From Life and Writing:

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes –including you.”

As contrary as this sounds, I know it to be true in the “reboot” computer era.  I can’t explain why powering down my computer for a few minutes (maybe even a few seconds) makes the damn thing work right again, and it frustrates me to be on a 1-800 HELL call and have the person on the other end tell me to do just that – but I’ll be damned, it usually works.  So it shouldn’t come as a surprise (or be a tactic of last resort) that taking a deep breath, closing my eyes, and opening them again somehow reprograms my internal computer, releases my anxieties, and allows me to see things in a different way, but it does.  I am convinced that Paul’s fall from his horse on the road to Damascus was nothing more than that – a reboot, or, as he describes in Romans 12:2 – a renewing of the mind.