{"id":445,"date":"2006-06-26T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/drawing-near.html"},"modified":"2007-02-11T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T13:38:46","slug":"drawing-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2006\/drawing-near.html","title":{"rendered":"Drawing near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"74\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Draw near to God...\" src=\"\/images\/draw-near.gif\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThis verse was on a card that was given to me by the church family at the <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/ccefc.ca\/\"><strong>Calgary Chinese Evangelical Free Church<\/strong><\/a> yesterday. Isn&#8217;t it strange that we sometimes have the hardest time drawing near to God when we need Him most? Well, when we&#8217;re hardened and confused by sin &#8211; I can understand why we would want to avoid the light. But when we&#8217;re just confused or tired or losing hope &#8211; we forget He&#8217;s a loving Father who wants to help us.Anyway, we got a warm welcome at the church yesterday. It was our first visit, and I hope not our last. It was great to worship together, especially after another very difficult week at the Cottrill household.<\/p>\n<p>As we head into the new week, we continue to pray for a new van (especially since we have had something else go wrong with the old one!). I have one or two leads on a van &#8211; I wish I had more, but of course all it takes is one good one! I&#8217;m just waiting for a call, and I&#8217;ll have a look at it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also had some challenges with the kids, which I won&#8217;t get into, so we appreciate your prayers about all these things. In a couple of days they&#8217;ll be spending a day with their cousins, which will be good for them and will give Shari and I a chance to really make headway with the packing. 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