{"id":2515,"date":"2014-01-19T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2014-01-19T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T09:17:37","slug":"growing-in-trust-a-sad-answer-to-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/im-vertrauen-wachsen-traurige-gebetserhoerung\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing in trust: a sad answer to prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did I trust anyone today?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes!<\/p>\n

Trusting in God \u2013 amidst and in spite of human disappointment<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the first phase of the refit, I worked with a boat builder who was in charge of the work. He did a neat and tidy job in many places. Unfortunately, not in all of them. In some places, it\u2019s not such a big deal: if new paint has simply been sprayed over old paint on a ceiling and the new paint comes off along with the old when you bump your head against it, that\u2019s annoying. \u00a0However, if paint has been applied or insulation laid over areas of the hull that have not been derusted, or have not been derusted thoroughly, then that is not only annoying, but life-threatening. Any rust that has not been properly treated poses a hazard.<\/p>\n

And so, over the past few months, I have been praying that God would draw my attention to any areas that still need attention. In the seminar room, I discovered a patch of black core rust in the bilge (at the keel of the ship) and another one a little further up.<\/p>\n

\"2014-01-18<\/a>Yesterday, someone helped me stick on some insulation. He hadn\u2019t stuck it down properly at one corner, so I peeled the insulation off to show him how to do it properly. And suddenly I was holding not just the insulation, but a palm-sized chunk of paint and rust. I almost cried. It\u2019s so frustrating when you can\u2019t rely on the work someone else has done. (The black patches on the left in the picture are the rust spots; the large dark patch on the right is black insulation).<\/p>\n

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The paint \u2013 which is only five months old \u2013 has already started to flake off again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning, as I was talking to God about it, it dawned on me: my God answers my prayers. I had asked him to show me the areas that weren\u2019t right. And the spot I found yesterday was a real stroke of luck\u2026 rust usually hides well under a coat of white paint.<\/p>\n

Yes, I am sad that \u2013 despite the work I have done and paid for \u2013 there are still areas of the ship in poor condition. But I am grateful that we have already identified some of the really critical areas. God has clearly answered my prayer.<\/p>\n

\"2014-01-13<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m grateful to the people who help me. Last week, for instance, my cousin derusted and sealed with marine varnish around 15 square metres of the hull which, in my opinion and that of several boatbuilders I\u2019d asked, hadn\u2019t been treated at all. Now friends from Portugal are going over it again with primer \u2013 and then the insulation can go on. The whole thing has cost me an extra three weeks \u2013 which is very frustrating. But better safe than sorry.<\/p>\n

In short:<\/strong> I am sad that things are the way they are. And grateful that God has answered my prayers. And grateful for the support I\u2019ve received from people!<\/p>\n

And I ask God to comfort me for the harm I have suffered\u2026 and I can\u2019t wait to see what He comes up with!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Habe ich heute vertraut?\u00a0Ja! Gott vertrauen – in und trotz menschlicher Entt\u00e4uschung In der ersten Phase des Umbaus habe ich mit einem Bootsbauer zusammengearbeitet, der die Arbeiten verantwortet…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glaube-vertrauen","category-schiff-kerstin-hack"],"featured_image_data":null,"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":25,"label":"Glaube und Vertrauen"},{"value":643,"label":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kerstin Hack","author_link":"https:\/\/63cfd2629054c8f4hack.de\/en\/author\/63cfd2629054c8f4\/"},"comment_info":12,"category_info":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Glaube und Vertrauen","slug":"glaube-vertrauen","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":109,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":25,"category_count":109,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Glaube und Vertrauen","category_nicename":"glaube-vertrauen","category_parent":0},{"term_id":643,"name":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord","slug":"schiff-kerstin-hack","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":643,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":214,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":643,"category_count":214,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Schiff und Auszeit an Bord","category_nicename":"schiff-kerstin-hack","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"ase":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}