ATT = A Terrible Telecom

Everyone who knows me, knows how much I dislike AT&T due to BAD past experiences with them. Since AT&T and Charter Cable (another bad company) has a dupology in my area, I signed up with DSL Extreme that uses the AT&T lines. But the catch was I had to have a current AT&T landline number to get DSL service (I could get dry-loop service, but the monthly bill would come out to be the same as the much faster cable internet bill). Fine. Got a new number. It's been a week since the services was suppose to be activated. According to AT&T, my line needs "additional repairs," and it will only be "a few more business days." Repairs?! What repairs?! You mean the same circuit that EVERYONE in my apartment uses?! You mean that line/circuit?!?!

I call shenanigans on AT&T. How foolish was I to think they have changed. I should have stuck with my gut and went with someone else. How can a large company like AT&T be so incompetent? And here I thought Charter was bad...AT&T is even worse!

ATT stands for: A Terrible Telecom

God's Plans

So I went to the afternoon/evening night service instead of the morning one. I liked it :) It was different and the whole atmosphere was different: I felt a more welcoming and uplifting attitude. To be honest it shouldn't really matter if a few more people gave "hi's" or smiled more, it's not about them or about how I feel--but worshiping the one and true living God. That being said, either service is adequate for worship and study.

Tonight's message was related to Christmas and how the circumstances surrounding this holiday was orchestrated by God. Good or bad, basically in a nutshell nothing that happens to us is an accident. Even when things look hopeless, he will use the things that were meant for our harm (from the enemy) and turn-it-around for good. Jeremiah 29:11 said it best:

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." --KJV
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." --NLT

Many times, when my plans go astray and all hope is lost, I forget that God has a plan for my life, and he is in control. I also tend to forget this body, life and all that it brings is temporal and not meant to be forever. Our real lives begin in eternity.