I had always said I was never going to get a computer because I loved my IBM Selectric (most don't even know what that is now). It looked really hard to learn Dos.

Our son was a computer guru by 10th grade. We bought him the first home computer on the market in 1980. He checked out books in the library and knew 3 computer languages by 10th grade (1984). He kept saying, "Mom you think like a computer - it would be easy for you." Coming from him - that was a compliment. But I hated DOS.

On my 45th birthday in 1988 my husband and his friend built me a user-friendly computer and gave it to me. Now after they went to all that trouble to build one especially for me so that I would not have to learn Dos commands, I had to try to learn to use it.

I figure I had the forerunner to Windows on that computer. All programs were click and go just like Windows. I loved the spell check because I was in the process of writing my first book ["Unequally Yoked (How to get your Husband Saved)"]. It wasn't long before I was hooked.

On a humorous note: My son and my Nephew bought my sister-in-law a computer and were in the process of teaching her DOS. We went over to visit her and she started talking about how hard it was to learn DOS.

She was sitting between our son, David (age 20) and her son, Brian (age 19) on the couch.

I said, "Why are you learning DOS? They could put this little program on your computer and you could just click and go."

Marilyn asked our sons, "You mean I don't have to learn DOS?!" They sheepishly responded, "No." She just started beating them both with a newspaper. They put the program on her computer that day.

Everyone still laughs about that one.

Also on a lighter note:  David entered the computer science competition. He said he had 3 months to put it together. Toward the end of the third month I asked him how he was doing. He said he had 7 days left and that was plenty of time.

I asked what he was going to make. He told me he was going to create a world and populate it. I asked him if he realized that it took God 6 days to create the earth and populate it. He said he remembered but that he could do it.

On the sixth day David came out and said he had a problem with his computer program. His people did not talk right. I reminded him that God had the same problem - His people didn’t talk right either.

He won 2^nd place and he was only in 9^th grade.

Isa 8:1 Moreover the LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll, and write on it with a man's pen concerning Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.

Isa 30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll,

Jer 30:2 "Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying: 'Write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you.

James 3:8 But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.