Ask One of My Siblings

Once I was working on a coding lab for my class and, my goodness, it was just not working. Part of our labs is that we run it through a test script and if it passes then we are good to go and we can get it passed off. For this particular lab, whenever I ran the script, I kept getting the same error, over and over. Literally hours were spent, huddled in my room, lights off, bright screen in my face, blood-shot eyes, staring at a coding problem that for the life of me I couldn’t figure out.

I didn’t pray right away, but I slowly started to. I got the impression to ask one of my siblings for help. They did coding, but I honestly hadn’t reached out to them before because I knew how busy they were. And not only that, but I wanted to solve this on my own, so it was definitely a “defeated” mentality when I eventually called. I honestly didn’t expect what would happen next.

The first question they asked me was, “Did you put any ‘hooks’ in your code?” I had never heard that term before. They briefly told me how I could use simple lines of code to display info, like warnings, and I could see what was happening behind the scenes. It literally changed everything about my debugging process, and I found the issue within 20 minutes. The phone call probably took just about 10.

I should not have been as prideful as I was, and I think the Lord was helping me know that not only is it ok to reach out for help, but He specifically asks us to. He knows how to help us.