God is kind to the Israelites as he frees them from slavery, sparing their first-born sons, and parting a massive body of water so they could go through – young, old, men, women and children. Not one is lost. (Exodus 1- 15). God is kind to his people as he makes bitter water sweet so they do not die of… Read More
On Friday night we drove to our friends’ house for a baptism, and half the church was there to celebrate it. Fredérique is a college chemistry teacher who studied the Bible for four years (only doing so because her husband is a member of our church). She is analytical, scientific, rational. She was a confirmed atheist. We arrived with our food contributions for… Read More
This weekend a very close friend of mine, Danila, celebrated her 50th birthday. The invitation to attend this elegant fête, that would be held at a small château – was tucked into their family Christmas card. So we’ve known about the event for four months. And for four months, I anticipated the celebration – not only because I was excited to help Danila welcome such… Read More
I mentioned that it was a busy period for me, and that part of my stress was the Women’s Day our church was holding in Paris (which was yesterday, by the way, appropriately set on the International Day for Women). I was responsible for the comic sketch for the event, and I’ve included the script at the bottom for your amusement. But it… Read More
I’m breaking the cardinal rule of blogging and am writing a post composed entirely of bad photos. But how could I resist sharing with you such a cute Christmas service that we had. And we had no camera with us, just an iPhone in low lighting, which was zoomed in. Our small church is pretty international and everyone took part…. Read More
If you’ve been reading my blog regularly, you know it’s been a challenging couple of weeks. It actually started in August with some divine discipline, and continued into September/October with acute depression – in part because this is the time of year I suffered loss. And then everything came to a head over the last two weeks in despair and… Read More
