Comments on: How I came to be in the USA http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/ Husband, Father, Author, Speaker and child of God Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: VanityofVanities http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 VanityofVanities Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:02:19 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1250 Brilliant! I love it. And you know what? You can re-write it. Endlessly. Post your latest one in a month and see the new responses you get! Brilliant! I love it.

And you know what? You can re-write it. Endlessly. Post your latest one in a month and see the new responses you get!

]]> By: Peter P http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 Peter P Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:22:01 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1249 There's so much I didn't say in the post, I'm looking back and wishing I could re-write it now. Like the fact that we sold/gave away everything we owned except 10 boxes of clothes and keepsakes - and at 30 years old we started again in California pretty much from scratch. Or that almost everything in our house, couches, beds, dining room furniture, tv, new kitchen was all given to us. Maybe I should write that part of the story too. There’s so much I didn’t say in the post, I’m looking back and wishing I could re-write it now.

Like the fact that we sold/gave away everything we owned except 10 boxes of clothes and keepsakes – and at 30 years old we started again in California pretty much from scratch.

Or that almost everything in our house, couches, beds, dining room furniture, tv, new kitchen was all given to us.

Maybe I should write that part of the story too.

]]> By: Janice Garrison http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 Janice Garrison Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:04 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1248 Neat story Peter, thanks for sharing one of the ways God has worked in your life. Larry and I moved from California to Oklahoma after much prayer and we thought that was a huge move. We love it here and God has blessed us enormously. Sometimes it’s scary to “walk by faith” yet it sure makes our trust in God stronger when we do. I’m not saying things always work out the way we think they will either. Sometimes his plans look completely different than mine, but they are always better. Neat story Peter, thanks for sharing one of the ways God has worked in your life.

Larry and I moved from California to Oklahoma after much prayer and we thought that was a huge move. We love it here and God has blessed us enormously.

Sometimes it’s scary to “walk by faith” yet it sure makes our trust in God stronger when we do. I’m not saying things always work out the way we think they will either. Sometimes his plans look completely different than mine, but they are always better.

]]> By: Peter P http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1247 Peter P Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:58:19 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1247 Thanks Anne. And Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hadn't thought about Abraham and Sarah. Thanks Anne.

And Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hadn’t thought about Abraham and Sarah.

]]> By: Anne Lang Bundy http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1246 Anne Lang Bundy Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:42:50 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1246 What a wonderful story. I have a couple different thoughts. I'm especially touched by your desire to be led by God, but also trusting your wife to be listening to Him and Him to speak to her. Everyone seems to remember Sarah as messing things up for Abraham by bringing Hagar into the picture. But Abraham listened to her without asking God. When Sarah got fed up with Hagar and complained to Abraham, he pushed the problem back at her, and God stepped in to bring Hagar back. The third time, Sarah tells Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away, and Abraham is grieved, but this time Sarah's words are confirmed by God. Abraham finally got it right he both listened to his wife and brought God into the decision. You well stated exactly how we should make each decision: "Whatever you want, Lord, I’ll do. Wherever you send me, I’ll go and I will be happy wherever you want me because my strongest desire is to serve you." What a wonderful story. I have a couple different thoughts.

I’m especially touched by your desire to be led by God, but also trusting your wife to be listening to Him and Him to speak to her.

Everyone seems to remember Sarah as messing things up for Abraham by bringing Hagar into the picture. But Abraham listened to her without asking God. When Sarah got fed up with Hagar and complained to Abraham, he pushed the problem back at her, and God stepped in to bring Hagar back. The third time, Sarah tells Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away, and Abraham is grieved, but this time Sarah’s words are confirmed by God. Abraham finally got it right he both listened to his wife and brought God into the decision.

You well stated exactly how we should make each decision: “Whatever you want, Lord, I’ll do. Wherever you send me, I’ll go and I will be happy wherever you want me because my strongest desire is to serve you.”

]]> By: Peter P http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1245 Peter P Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:59:49 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1245 Sadly, it would have cost more to bring the van here than it was worth, so we sold it before we left. Thanks for reading and commenting. I don't think we are any more 'decent' than anyone else, we probably do more than our fair share of selfish stuff. Some time soon, I'll post about how Debbie and I met. I think you'll like that story! Sadly, it would have cost more to bring the van here than it was worth, so we sold it before we left.

Thanks for reading and commenting. I don’t think we are any more ‘decent’ than anyone else, we probably do more than our fair share of selfish stuff.

Some time soon, I’ll post about how Debbie and I met. I think you’ll like that story!

]]> By: sensico http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1244 sensico Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:49:21 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1244 That's an amazing story, though, not the life-of-crime-fugitive-turned-family-guy story I was hoping but very cool. Do you still have the van or is it an old picture? Maybe you're in that nowhere town because something worse could have happened if you stayed in England. But, you have a nice life, and help others, maybe you were meant to just have a normal life! Glad you migrated to America, we need more decent people. That’s an amazing story, though, not the life-of-crime-fugitive-turned-family-guy story I was hoping but very cool. Do you still have the van or is it an old picture? Maybe you’re in that nowhere town because something worse could have happened if you stayed in England. But, you have a nice life, and help others, maybe you were meant to just have a normal life!
Glad you migrated to America, we need more decent people.

]]> By: Peter P http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 Peter P Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:03 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1243 I'm completely with you there Jason! In fact, I prefer it, if God is only going to speak to one of us, for him to speak to my wife and not me. I have some decisions at the moment that I am just hoping he'll speak to her about because I feel they are too big for me to make without her having confirmation from Him! I’m completely with you there Jason!

In fact, I prefer it, if God is only going to speak to one of us, for him to speak to my wife and not me.

I have some decisions at the moment that I am just hoping he’ll speak to her about because I feel they are too big for me to make without her having confirmation from Him!

]]> By: jasonS http://peterpollock.com/2009/07/how-i-came-to-be-in-the-usa/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 jasonS Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:39:21 +0000 http://blog.hafchurch.org/peter/?p=1046#comment-1242 Always cool to hear stories of how God leads us. My wife and I are very similar, but there are times when the decisions are so big that I really want her to hear God too as confirmation for me and also so that when we step into that decision there's no turning back (if that makes sense). Thanks for sharing. Always cool to hear stories of how God leads us. My wife and I are very similar, but there are times when the decisions are so big that I really want her to hear God too as confirmation for me and also so that when we step into that decision there’s no turning back (if that makes sense). Thanks for sharing.

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