I attended a conference this weekend, where the speaker - an outstanding man called Terry Hoggard - quoting another said this, 'why does the church learn through tribulation what God already shows through revelation.'

In other words, why do churches always seem to learn the hard way?

But this of course applies to us as individuals too. How many parents have kids who go their own way only to learn the suggestions from a parent proved to be the right course to take after all.

I've learned a lot in life through tribulation but I wonder what might have been avoided if I'd followed the corrective suggestions from a loving Parent earlier in the process.

So from now on where there is a choice to make, a path to follow or decision to arrive at, rather than learning the hard way, I think I'l take the hint from heaven and go his way.

QD