We live in a time of miracles

The other day I was down in my back paddock, fixing up some fences. It was a work day! But it was a sunny work day. And I had reached my limit when it came to sitting in front of a screen and needed to get out. 

While I was fencing the phone rang, a potential prospect. A salesperson I had been talking with for a long time. 

I put the tools down and grabbed the call. It lasted for an hour and by the time it was over we had all questions answered. I still had a broken fence but Independent Agent had a new salesperson. This had all happened while I was sitting on a grassy hillside in my favourite, most peaceful part of my property. 

People have been mending fences for thousands of years but this is the first time in history we have been able to do it with a communication device in our pockets that can access a vast portion of the world’s knowledge, while on a video call (if need be) with someone on the other side of the planet. 

So when stuff goes wrong, like an internet page loads a bit slowly, or the two-factor authentication is peeving me off, a link breaks, or it takes more than two clicks to find something I am looking for, I remember that I live in a time of miracles. 

What we take for granted would have been unimaginable at least (witchcraft at worst) to our grandparents, science fiction to our parents, and the very distant future to our childhood selves. 

I remind myself to chill out, and consider the effort I would have to go through, the space that I would require and the time that it would take not very long ago, to achieve the simplest of communication and information sharing tasks that I do hundreds of times a day. 

It is a time where we have a lot more flexibility in the way we work and live and interact. 

We live in a time of miracles!