Contributed by Steve Miller on Feb 12, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    GETTING THE UNEXPECTED/DISAPPOINTMENT:
A wife woke up one morning and said, “Honey, I just had a dream that you bought me a new gold necklace.  What do you think it means?”
“I don’t know, but Valentine’s Day is coming soon.  Tuesday, you’ll know,” He replied.
A few nights later, she again woke
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the book Disappointment with God, Philip Yancey tells the story of a man he refers to as Douglas. Douglas was a sincere devout Christian whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. The breast was removed, but a couple years later the cancer was found in her lungs. So she had to go through the
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Disappointment, in life, is inevitable. Pain is the common lot. Sorrow is not given to us alone that we may mourn. It is given us that, having felt,
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Armstrong on Jun 2, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ‘In the face of disappointed world betrayal, a world in which all fixed points have proven illusory, a world in which we are anchorless and adrift. Christ is the foundation, the origin, the way, the truth, the life. In the face of a culture of death, a world of killing fields, a world of the
                    
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                    Contributed by David Browne on Dec 9, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied, "Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink. Your job is to make
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Fritz on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied, "Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink. Your job is to make
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 9, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The young salesman was disappointed about losing a big sale, and as he talked with his sales manager he lamented, "I guess it just proves you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink." The manager replied, "Son, take my advice: your job is not to make him drink. Your job is to make
                    
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                    Contributed by Phillip Weaver on Apr 9, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Do you remember the feelings of disappointment Dorothy and her friends had when the Great and Magnificent Wizard of Oz was exposed behind the curtain?  Do you remember that scene?  The Wizard spoke with much sound and fury, but seemed to have little substance once the curtain was pulled back.  Did
                    
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                    Contributed by Andrew Chan on May 25, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Philip Yancey in his book Disappointment with God wrote this: "Imagine for a moment becoming a baby again: giving up language and muscle coordination, and the ability to eat solid food and control your bladder. God as a fetus! Or imagine yourself becoming a sea slug – that analogy is probably
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                
                    Joke: Disappointment is one of those emotions we would rather avoid. A small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness to the stand in a trial -- a grand-motherly, elderly woman.
He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?"
She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr.
                    
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