http://www.thingstoowonderful.com Trusting God when life gets tough. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:58:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Would you believe that my seven year old daughter had never seen a hedgehog before!  Squirrels we have in abundance.  Mice - too many!  Bats and foxes are common: she watches them from her bedroom window, but for some reason we had been woefully short on hedgehogs... until tonight. I was ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=26 My young daughter had her first experience of The Deep End this weekend. Not that she hasn't been swimming before: but the pool we regularly go to is one depth all the way across, so she can stand up.  This weekend she opted to join in my son's 'Stupid O'Clock' (7am) Triathlon ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=25 God speaks in so many different ways.  Probably because we hear Him in so many different ways!  Part of my role in our Church is helping people learn how to hear and know the voice of God, and I love that when people open up and expect to hear Him ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=24 Disappointment is not sin. Definitely not.  It is hope deferred, which the Bible says 'Makes the heart sick' but it is not sin.  Which of us doesn't get disappointed once in a while?  We live in a fallen mess up world and bad things happen and sometimes God doesn't answer our ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=23 I love the book of Habauk.  It's only three chapters long, hidden away among the minor prophets, but it contains one of the greatest statements of faith in the whole Bible, and lessons you would pay a fortune for online! Habakuk was around about the same time as Jeremiah.  Tough time ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=22 If you could ask God any question, what would you ask Him?  I asked a lot of people that question last week, in preparation for a talk I was doing.  The vast majority of the adults I asked said they would have to think about it and get back to me.  ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=21 My car is dead.  It was a terminal case of head gasket and cracked cylinder and a few other things (mechanics not being my best thing I am unable to supply the details)  but it has driven its last journey.  Needless to say, this was unwelcome and expensive news, given ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=20 I have to say that as weeks go, this one hasn't been the best. Steve went to another healing meeting, and as he lined up with the others to be prayed for the guy next to him went flying over, hitting him in the temple with his elbow and nearly knocking ... http://www.thingstoowonderful.com/?p=19