Praise for the little things

This was so cool and encouraging today... it's kind of a little thing, but it means a lot somehow....

I had been working on this thing since approximately January at work. It was pretty simple and shouldn't be that difficult. Yet for some reason I couldn't get it to work, no matter what I tried! I felt so dumb, because I couldn't get it to work, and thought I was just missing something, etc... and I have been really discouraged about it. I've been avoiding doing this or anything like it, because I felt like I was stupid and it would never work because I can't get it. Then today I was "randomly" talking to another student who used the DNA that I had been working on, and he told me that the DNA was shorter than I had originally thought. Which means that of course I couldn't get it to work, because I was trying to do things with the piece of DNA that was missing! So it's not that I can't do this after all, I was just missing some information, and incorrectly thought I had something I didn't. So that was so encouraging! And it gives me renewed energy and focus to work on a bunch of things like that which I need to do in the near future. So thank you God for showing me that - I feel like it's a real "breakthrough"!

Please keep praying for my research and me as I try to finish up - things like this are so encouraging, and I pray that I will be faithful to work diligently and finish up in the time frame that's needed. I want to be honoring to my boss and to God, working as unto Him, and by doing so, being a witness and a testimony to God's grace in my life.