les Davey de France

Me: Bonsoir. Le M: Bonsoir. Good evening. Je ne sais pas si vous êtes Français ou Anglais Me: err, je suis Gallois. Le M: Ah. Je ne parle pas gallois. Me: Vous dites "Noswaith dda". Le M: Noswaith dda? Et ça veut dire? Me: Très bien! Ça veut dire "bonsoir" en gallois.

First a word of apology, then one of explanation. To our regular readers, we do not deserve your assiduity, we are unworthy of your commitment. Eny fule kno, to quote the unrivalled Molesworth, that to keep a blog going you have to blog regularly , preferably every day. This I have not done. And I am sorry. However I am not without explanation. We have been to Paris. Yes! To PARIS! But not to the City of Light. No, we skirted the south of the city to head straight for the station Marne-la-Vallée. Yes! the stop for DISNEYLAND! But we were not going to visit Mickey, Donald or any of his other friends. We were going to Multiplication , a short workshop run by Acts29. (Gentle reader, do not look for the 29th chapter of Acts in your Bible.You will look in vain.) Yes. Church planting is what we are engaged in in Bordeaux. It is arduous, demanding and often solitary. Since last summer we were challenged to consider joining one of the church planting networks, of which it seemed to ...

I use an application to guide me in my running, and I like to get up at about 6:30, get ready and run then. The streets are empty and dark and I can hurtle alongside the vineyards to my heart's despair without fear of disturbance or perturbation. It is good, too, to surrender all sovereignty to my phone and just obey when it says "Ding! Start running", "Ding! Watch that kerb!", "Ding! Don't worry about that dog, he's indoors." etc. There is a drawback, however. It is that at 6:30, though I am pretty well awake, I am not terribly competent with technology. So it is that I have run various days of week one for about two weeks... The first I know of it is when I am expecting to have to run further and for longer, but no... same as yesterday. Oh well. Little matter.

Day whatever... Harder this morning, but still OK.

A lady came into Maison de la Bible today and said, "I hope you can help me. I am looking for a Bible, a Second 21, with very wide margins for taking notes on." "Oh yes", quoth I, "the English ones are called Journalling Bibles". "Yes! That's what I am looking for, but in French." "Sorry. It doesn't exist. You'll have to master English." She laughed and we examined all the Bibles. And yes, it doesn't exist. And it SHOULD. We could find no wide margin Bible at all. "I'll contact the publishers of the Bible Second 21 and tell them that we need one." "Great! You can let me know when it will come out?" "Well it will take a long time. Frankly, I think it would be quicker to master the English language."

Some remarks were made at the start of the week that I took too seriously. I knew they were not true, but I allowed them to haunt me instead of tackling them. Oh well. Next week will be better.