A couple of weeks ago, my WordPress blog got hacked.  It happens.  I contacted my server to restore it and was told the backup file was also hacked.  I had no backup of my own.  As it turns out, I didn’t need one.  I had my magic wizard of a brother to the rescue!  I wasn’t worried about losing the info because I had the entire blog in a Word file.  I could pay someone to re-enter the data.  I’d lose my place in the search engines until Google could review the site once it was restored, but that was ok, too. I don’t depend on my website for income. I did have complex cross-linking of my meditation and creative visualization posts, so I’d have to relink them all, which would take some time.  But I didn’t feel like I’d need to. I didn’t feel like the entires were gone.  I just figured it was some little glitch that would be fixed soon enough and all would be fine.  I like living in the mystery.  In the mystery is where the magic happens.   

Some computer techie friends told me the site could not be restored.  Technically they were right, since a “restore” feature wasn’t being used.  But Brothermine seemed to think he could get the pages back on and that was enough for me.  For years a mechanical engineer for Honeywell Aerospace, Jerry is really good at sussing out problems and fixing them.

He warned me he might not be successful, that he’d have to re-familiarize himself with the software. History tells me he’s good at that and that he under-states his skills and knowledge. I asked a few times how it was going and he told me all the techie things he was doing. It was complex and over my head, but I wasn’t concerned. I felt he had it under control.

Other techie friends said don’t count on it. I understood their concern based on their own past experience. But my past experience is that things always work out for me. My past experience is that my brother has always been able to magically fix anything I goof up on the websites.

My experience is that I don’t need to know the details of how something is going to work out.  I just need to have faith that it will. And it somehow always miraculously does. Out of 3,977 blog posts, I only had to re do 108 that dropped off.