What a way to start the new year !

Early yesterday morning I arose and turned up the heat and turned on a lamp in my bedroom. Then I snuggleld back into my warm electrically heated bed. After a while, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that the light in the lamp went out. I said to myself the electricity has gone off and I may be suffering in the cold for many days. So I made the most of it, smothering the covers around me, to retain the heat as long as I could. I thought, what a way to start the new year. Not even power to cook or use the computer. After an hour, I looked around and other lights were on. Just the bulb in the lamp had gone dead. What a relief. But I stayed in bed for another half hour, contemplating my good fortune and praying to God, thanking him for our electricity and all of our modern conveniences, and for the freedom and ability to use them.