Such a Seemingly Small Thing

within this card holds images.  images of another woman's wedding.  and not just any images or detail images like the dress or bouquet but the actual ceremony.  

last night, while attempting to upload them onto my computer, i kept getting an error message.  i didn't freak at first until i thought about how i had tried this card in a card reader a few days earlier.  the card reader was new out of the box, but it didn't work.  so, then i started to feel that sick, skin turns ice cold panic.  i reinserted the card several times to read the same error message.  i tried another card thinking it may be my camera and not the card.  nope.  it definitely was the card.  the card that held all the tender moments at the alter and all the post-ceremony family shots that the bride and i went over for weeks making sure everyone was accounted for.  still hoping against hope, i tried the card in another camera.  nada.   knowing deep down the results, i continued to reinsert it.  and then i went back to the first camera.  error.  i breathed in deeply and thought to myself, "i will still praise You, but she's going to be really angry with me."  i wasn't on the verge of tears, yet, but i would be.  i told steve about it, and then fiddle around some more, again, hoping that maybe another card had those irreplaceable images.  then all of the sudden, i decided to pray.  i held the card in the middle of my palm and just sat there and prayed, 

"Jesus, this is completely in your realm.  You don't have to restore this card, and if I have to face the storm that will come from not having the pictures for the bride, I will praise you, but could I please ask this of you?  I know that people came to you and asked for healing and you answered them and this is so much smaller (and then at this point I broke down sobbing because I thought about how really insignificant this was compared to what other people face (illness, death, etc))....  Either way, may Your name be glorified."  


Of course, you probably know where this is going.  I inserted the card again, and just like that, all the images appeared.  I know, I know, it could be a coincidence.  But I can not chalk it up to that after what I had tried before and after feeling pulled into prayer.  He doesn't always answer prayers that way, but my small little faith got a boost last night that He does care for me, even in the small things.

---------update---------

after uploading all the pictures, i have since tried to use the card several times, and it will not work.  absolutely fried.