Back in the USA, I have not written a check to pay utilities in a few years. Before that, the water company was the only check I wrote, because they were the last to automate their billing and receive electronic funds transfers.
Oh, how I love electronic funds transfers. We in Europe and the USA don't know how good we have it. We can bank online, pay bills online, pay credit cards with automatic drafts. THESE are the good old days!
Few of us, including me until recently, realized that this is not universally true. Although lots and lots of the populace here, at least in Gaborone, have WWW access, there are a lot of things you can't do here on the web. Here are some examples:
Can't make a credit card deposit on a hotel reservation without filling out a form and scanning it back in to the computer.
Can't do online money transfers between banks and accounts.
Can't do auto bill pay or even see an account on line.
Consequently, most of the banking and bill paying are done by going somewhere and waiting in line until the clerk calls you. But, instead of focusing on what we can't do, we ought to rejoice in what we can do. Here we can:
In our daily lives, much of our thinking, at least for me, focuses on what we can't do, instead of what we can. G^d has Blessed us all beyond all we can ask or think...
Eph 3: 20-21, "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."
So, as I shift my focus, perhaps it is much easier to,
"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!" (Phil 4:4)
Oh, how I love electronic funds transfers. We in Europe and the USA don't know how good we have it. We can bank online, pay bills online, pay credit cards with automatic drafts. THESE are the good old days!
Few of us, including me until recently, realized that this is not universally true. Although lots and lots of the populace here, at least in Gaborone, have WWW access, there are a lot of things you can't do here on the web. Here are some examples:
Can't make a credit card deposit on a hotel reservation without filling out a form and scanning it back in to the computer.
Can't do online money transfers between banks and accounts.
Can't do auto bill pay or even see an account on line.
Consequently, most of the banking and bill paying are done by going somewhere and waiting in line until the clerk calls you. But, instead of focusing on what we can't do, we ought to rejoice in what we can do. Here we can:
- Make a hotel reservation on line (maybe with a couple of additional telephone calls).
- Get $$ from an abundance of ATMs
- Text message
In our daily lives, much of our thinking, at least for me, focuses on what we can't do, instead of what we can. G^d has Blessed us all beyond all we can ask or think...
Eph 3: 20-21, "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."
So, as I shift my focus, perhaps it is much easier to,
"Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!" (Phil 4:4)
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