2. Happy Year Mark this week myself! Stay tuned next week
when I will present the numbers...
3. Pictures of our life in Lyon:
--running to catch busses
--finishing one exchange, praying with the sisters before
they leave...and then having 30 minutes before the next equipe shows up to
start their exchange. it's a busy life this.
--coming out of the study room to find Sister Hutchins
standing by herself in the hallway, still wearing her coat, halfway through
eating a Milky Way chocolate bar in silence. this is what happens after a week
of exchanges. we have a panic drawer in one of the desks--it's stocked with
chocolate. hahaha, we panic a lot. but we pray a lot too. so it's okay.
4. I read Luke 7:39 this week and I keep thinking about
it.
36 ¶And
one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into
the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.
37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was
a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s
house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his feet
behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did
wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and
anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him
saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a
prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that
toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
I think we all get confronted with these moments daily--
whern we can either choose to reject things of faith and of love because they
don't fit into our concept of "the way things work," or we can doubt
our doubts, accept that maybe our idea of "the way things work" may
be just a little sliver of the Truth. If we open ourselves up to believing and
to faith and to love, then our understanding can be enlarged.
Pictures:
This is my friend. This is a Nigerian outfit he's
wearing. Cool huh.
This is a castle. Yep, still livin in France.
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