When I opened my laptop to write this morning, my software alerted me to an update that was ready to be installed for the app that I use for my writing. When I clicked the alert, it opened a different app that handles the updates, and then that app told me that I wasn’t registered and needed to buy a plan that would allow me to proceed.
It’s confusing, I know, but hang in there a bit longer — I’m going somewhere.
The problem is that I already have a plan, and when I entered my account information, it still didn’t recognize it in the app even though it did on the website for that app.
All of this work to get into an app that I already have access to has left me a little frustrated. And yet, what a beautiful reminder of the access that we’ve been given in Christ! Eugene Peterson worded it beautifully in his paraphrase, The Message:
