Comments on: Our Friend, The Gentle Giant

By: Long Time, No See « Snoodlings

Long Time, No See « Snoodlings — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:22:38 +0000

[...] past weekend we went to Newport, Rhode Island, where we had lunch with Barr AND Ruth. You remember Barr, our Gentle Giant Friend, right? Well, meet his beautiful and wonderful wife, [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:46:24 +0000

Oh, the pineapple fields and the train! Hawaii misses you!

By: amber

amber — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:21:55 +0000

I love how God places people in our lives JUST when we need ‘em. Your friends sound like amazing people. What blessings!!!

Our God is super cool like that!

By: Mich

Mich — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:00:15 +0000

Again you touched my heart by sharing yours. We have an AWESOME God that knows exactly what we need at all times.

My husband told me one time that unanswered prayers are never unanswered. God just chooses to answer them a different way than how we want things. In the end we always realize our Heavenly Father does know best!

I am so glad you had a great visit with a dear friend. What an encouragement.

By: His Girl Amber

His Girl Amber — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:56:32 +0000

Oh, I love posts like these. I think perhaps my favorite part about being ‘older in the faith’ is that I have stories like this of my own… the ones that I can look at and remember that God triumphs… *sigh* beautiful, just beautiful.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:20:56 +0000

I agree with Tiff, I loved your honesty at the beginning of the post. Been there, done that…sometimes it’s reassuring to know that others have as well. And also have come through it. Anyhoo…..very sweet post and it sounds like they are special gems.

I love how God puts people on our path when we least expect it!

By: cathy

cathy — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:52:21 +0000

That was SO well said. It’s usually when we look back on something that we see the good that HE knew was there all along, even if it didn’t seem good to us at the time. Most times we’re not allowed the big picture that He sees, we’re just asked to trust. He will not lead us to somewhere where He is not.

Thank you for sharing about you and K. It hit home for me… We moved away from our “home” town for 3 years, it was what we thought was right until everything seemed to be crashing in on us (my husbands job went sour and financial strain), and then God moved us back to our “home”. We kept asking ourselves “were we supposed to move away at all?? what good came from it?”, and it is finally NOW almost a year later that we are in complete awe and amazement of what God is doing in us and how he used that move in our lives!

His ways are not our ways, but they’re always better! …sometimes we just need to wait to see it.

I am so happy for you that you have that kind of friendship/mentorship! What a blessing!

By: Stephanie's Mommy Brain

Stephanie's Mommy Brain — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:00:52 +0000

Hi!

I’m the friend Meredith mentioned. Her comment about distance in RI made me smile. lol! We’ve been in RI since 1997. New England grows on you after nearly a dozen years. Now you have me wondering if there are any other OBU folks (we’re class of ’97) in the area!!

Thanks for dropping by and introducing yourself.
Stephanie

By: gretchen

gretchen — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:27:59 +0000

So veddy, veddy cool. The way God works is so humbling and so unseen at the time…I’m with Kellie. Surprised by God is apparently my reality, as well. Just when I think either things are hopeless in a certain situation, or that conversely, they can’t get any better in another–He moves.

Beautiful, beautiful friendship.

Hope firstborn is feeling better soon.

By: christi

christi — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:04:19 +0000

Isn’t it great to have great, old friends like that? I’m glad that you had a chance to get together again!