Murphy's Law - Whatever Could Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong

My husband and I are taking a family vacation in about 2 weeks. Our compressor for the AC went out in the truck, and it will cost about $400.00 to fix, before that our washer machine and dryer went out and that cost about $200.00 to put a warranty on it to get it fixed. The monies that I was expecting for the last 3 weeks has yet to surface. I was thinking about Murphy's Law (whatever could go wrong, will) and looking at how it is correlating to our little unexpected financial predicament.

I wanted to find out the origin of said Law so I looked it up. Good ole' Google! Anyhoo! I thought you would be interested to know the origins based on my ponderings this morning. However, I have to make my situation line up with God's Word which tells me "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" and "No weapon formed against me shall prosper!" Now that is really good news! I will pray and ask God to deliver us from these unexpected financial attacks, at least until we get on that boat to the Bahamas! Will let you know how all that pans out! Have a very blessed week!


Murphy's laws origin
• The following article was excerpted from The Desert Wings
March 3, 1978
Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.

Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.
Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.