Tuk-tuks are well known around Thailand. Any tourist who comes to Bangkok will almost always take at least one ride in these three wheel taxis. Then, have battling the traffic, the noise and pollution they feel a sense of achievement at the end of their journey!
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The other day, Grit (13) was at our place, just hanging out as he does quite often. He suddenly remembered that he wanted to tell me something and came up to me with a big smile. His phone had been broken for a few days, just not turning on at all. Grit had fiddled with it trying to get it to work but nothing happened. In the end, his younger sister, "Wen" had decided to try praying. She and Grit have both heard quite bit about God at our place over the last few years. They have heard how God answers prayer. So, Wen just simply asked God to fix the phone. Then she pressed the on button again - and on it came! They were thrilled.
God is good. He knows they are just taking their first steps of faith, working out if this God is real and if he really does all we say he does. Does he love them as we have said he does? So, God answers and little by little they see that he is real and does love them.
God doesn't always fix things when I ask him these days. He knows me and stretches me and grows me through tough times and times when he answers in ways I hadn't expected. Yet it is such fun to watch him answer for the kids who are brave enough to reach out to him. These are their first "baby" steps. It's a great place to be at, watching them grow.
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I had been taught to love planting trees since I became a Christian, by my missionary friend.
My trees were growing beautifull and I thanked God for it every time I came home.. until one day ....
I got home and couldn't believe my eyes, all my beautiful trees(growing tall in 4 years time) were cut down and destroyed', by my husband. He decided he was going to build a fence without consulting me
I was extremely upset and did not want to see my husband ever again. I also did not want to talk to God either. Why did He not stop my husband!!!
This went on for a few days when one night I boiled up some snails for us to eat. usually one can just suck out the snail with not too much effort but this night I could not suck it out and frustration built up in me as I throw one snail after the other down. My 10 year old boy watched me doing this and he got up to find some smooth sticks that came with a Thai sweet which my husband bought earlier on. My boy offered me one of these sticks to pick out the flesh of the snail saying:" Mother, isn't God wonderful, He got into dads heart and make him buy the Thai sweets so that we could have these sticks now to pick out the snails meat".
These words "God got into dads heart" just stopped me in my tracks. I knew this was God speaking to me and not my little boy. God was reminding me that He can change my husband, only He can get into his heart. I was ready to give up on my husband. This time he went too far. Now I was willing to talk to God again, thanking Him for knowing about my pain and trusting Him again to change my husband. I had immediate peace and even joy returned.
(This is the story of a Thai Christaian from Namkhem church in the area that was hit by a Tsunami 7 years ago.)
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