I took one of the ones that I hadn't started yet, estimated how long it would take to finish it and then started in to see if I was right. The first step took me about three times as long to finish as I thought it would and I started to panic. Trying to control my panic, I just kept working, trying my best to get back to my estimate. But the harder I tried, the more problems with the scene I found. I realized that if all the scenes had this kind of problem, I was in very serious trouble. I finally went and talked to Sam about it. He is the artist that did the modeling for the lower half of the tree. He had some solutions for the scenes and I went back and tried them for the one I had started. It still didn't work. Now I was really starting to panic.
Then I decided to give up on that one shot and try a different one. The next one I tried, Sam's idea worked perfectly. So working quickly, I was able to get three scenes into the render queue before packing up to go home.
As I was submitting the last of the three to the farm, suddenly a great wave of peace came over me and I realized that I actually had had quite a bit of success that day, even though one of the scenes had problems. My next thought was that someone must be praying for me.
I went home and told this story to M and K. They said that they were happy I got so much done, but they hadn't prayed for me. Then I told Kelly, and she said that she had prayed for me. I was so happy. And I was also relieved to remember that God is in control of everything, and that I don't need to stress out over schedules. After all that God has done in this adventure, I should already have known this one.
And as a side note on patience, I just got word that Logos Bible Software for the Macintosh has entered into it's alpha program! I've been patiently waiting for this powerful Bible Study software to get ported to the Mac, and now it is a significant step closer to reality.
Dave
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