les Davey de France

In 2005 Alan, Pat, Gwilym & Catrin Davey moved from North East Wales to Bordeaux. Alan is a pastor and Pat was a nurse. Now we work with UFM worldwide. Read on! (If you'd like to know what took us to Bordeaux, then start with the archives from September 2004)

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Couple of thoughts from sondages this week

It was sunny, we were at the town centre, everyone was in a good mood but NOBODY had two minutes for a short questionnaire. Not only that but I had backache. This was getting us nowhere.

Anyway we stopped and had a quick talk and a quick time of prayer

and suddenly ...

nothing changed.

Then a couple of people had time to talk. I had a nice friendly chat with two guys - one has a friend who's dad is a pastor - the friend is "très croyant mais pas pratiquant". A couple of folk said they could do the longer questionnaire. And I didn't notice my backache any more.

Funny old thing, isn't it. This need for prayer and for perseverance. And patience. And persistence.

It was lunchtime. Two students had these gorgeous sandwiches. They pointed out the shop, but they're four euros a shot. £4 for a sandwich ! Another guy though had bought a déjeunette (a half-length baguette) and a bar of chocolate and as we talked he would break off a chunk of bread and a piece of chocolate, bury the chocolate in the bread and munch. I got my usual Thursday treat of the sub du jour from Subway. 6" of nice bread roll with ham, two kinds of salami, some cheese, mounds of salad and mayonnaise and the chance to practice your oo's and u's, all for 2€90. Bargain !

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