How Could Something So Good Fall Apart?

Ever have your dreams come true and everything is great and you knew God was at work and then have everything just crumble? Ever wonder how could God just stand back and watch something that was so good just fall apart?

Phil Vischer - co-creator of the VeggieTales spoke at the 2009 Founders Week Conference. I encourage you to click on the link below and listen to Phil speak regarding the reason sometimes our dreams are shattered or our circumstances change. By clicking on the link you can listen on your computer to Dreams Parts 1 & 2 or you can download for free via Itunes by searching for the podcast Today in the Word.

As Phil explains, he is a storyteller (and a very good one!). He came up with the idea of limbless vegetables telling Bible stories (and as he put it "try selling that concept!) and the rest is history. Did you know VeggieTales is the best sales of direct videos, regardless secular or Christian? VeggieTales sales surpassed the likes of Barney, and Scooby-Do.

During the success of VeggieTales the company grew from 3 employees to over 200. Many people, including Phil, thought Big Ideas (Phil's production company) could become the next Disney. What a story: small town kid's idea becomes huge success!

But then everything started going wrong. Sales stopped growing. Over half of the companies employees had to be laid off. At that time, the release of VeggieTales: Jonah - a feature length movie was being released. Phil thought "if the movie can just do double of what we think it will we will not have to lay people off...God can do that...' But God did not do that. Phil then thought "When Jonah is released on DVD if we can just double the projected sales we will not have to lay anyone off...God can do that...' But God did not. Then Big Ideas was sued, and Phil prayed for God to make the jury understand Big Ideas did nothing wrong...God could do that...but God did not do that.

So what does it mean when a dream comes to life, God shows up, and then the dream dies? Click the link below and select Dreams to find out...

http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_podcast.aspx?Program=TodayintheWord

Also make sure you check out JellyTelly Phil's new creation for kids!