Thoughts about God

I am sitting in my living room...that is empty. I still cannot believe as I sit here all that is happening. Just a few days ago we had no idea where we were going to be moving and now the house is empty and we are moving to an incredible house. How does this happen? How do we continue to be blessed over and over again? We truly do not deserve it and yet God continues to chase after us with His incredible love. How do I put all this together? I am not going to the extreme that says "name it and claim it" but how do I not believe that God wants to bless His children? The question still continues though when there are questions about bad things happening to good people. Why if God is in the business of blessing? I don't get it. It is something that I will continue to wrestle with. God help me to understand. Help me to see how these two "views" of God reconcile.
I hope to post more in regards to this in the future. Right now my mind is going all over though and I don't know at all what to post. Thanks for listening though to my ramblings.

God is good all the time

I am just reflecting how good God is all the time. There are many times that we know this fact, but there are some days that it simply stands out to us like a glaring neon sign. This past Friday, August 1st, 2008, was my wife's birthday. She stated that the only thing she wanted was to know if we were going to get the house that we had made an offer on. It was in the dreaded "short sale" process. We had been told that the shortest time that this could take was 45 days. Her birthday would be less than 21 days and I wanted to prepare her for the worst...it wouldn't happen. Well, that afternoon we heard that in fact the short sale had gone through. God cared enough to let my wife know his love in a very personal way. It did not stop there tough. We went shopping for a rocking chair for her as we will be having our newest member to our family soon. We took the information up to the counter to pay for it and they range it up...$260 off. They were having an 18 hour sale and the chair was already on sale so it was going to be 45% off. Amazing. Then we went out for dinner and I asked the waiter what the specials where for birthday's. My wife is kicking me under the table now because she does not want cake nor have them come and sing for her. The waiter informed us it was a free meal! God is good all the time, but there are days like my wife had today that make it so clear. It is simply amazing!