We've been in France for a week and a half now, and what an experience it has been! We are cat sitting for some missionaries while they are away, so we get a house (very small and strange by American standards) to ourselves. Every weekday we drive to College Daniel, the Christian school nearby which will serve our equivalent of preschool to 11th grade in the fall. The school has so much work to be done it's unbelievable. My brothers and dad have been putting drywall into a room so that it can be used as a classroom in the fall. My mom and I have been employed with various tasks, but for awhile I've been using a machine to make spiral workbooks that will be used in the fall by the various classes. My mom and some teachers have been working on taking old wallpaper off the walls in a couple rooms in the chateau. (The school is mostly housed in what used to be a mansion basically. It's very old and needs lots of work and updating. Last week there were four people from Austria staying at the school. (They were two teachers and two students from a Christian school in Vienna. The two schools are trying to set up an exchange program.) Anyways, one of them said something that really inspired me and was exactly what I needed to hear, and that was this: "God loves it when we are crazy enough to trust Him." So I have a challenge: Are you crazy enough to trust God at this moment in your life in whatever circumstance you are facing right now?
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Parlez-vous francais?
We've been in France for a week and a half now, and what an experience it has been! We are cat sitting for some missionaries while they are away, so we get a house (very small and strange by American standards) to ourselves. Every weekday we drive to College Daniel, the Christian school nearby which will serve our equivalent of preschool to 11th grade in the fall. The school has so much work to be done it's unbelievable. My brothers and dad have been putting drywall into a room so that it can be used as a classroom in the fall. My mom and I have been employed with various tasks, but for awhile I've been using a machine to make spiral workbooks that will be used in the fall by the various classes. My mom and some teachers have been working on taking old wallpaper off the walls in a couple rooms in the chateau. (The school is mostly housed in what used to be a mansion basically. It's very old and needs lots of work and updating. Last week there were four people from Austria staying at the school. (They were two teachers and two students from a Christian school in Vienna. The two schools are trying to set up an exchange program.) Anyways, one of them said something that really inspired me and was exactly what I needed to hear, and that was this: "God loves it when we are crazy enough to trust Him." So I have a challenge: Are you crazy enough to trust God at this moment in your life in whatever circumstance you are facing right now?
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Cloudy with a Chance of Frosting
I wrote this on Sunday, but i didn't have time to type it up until today.
Today (Sunday) ends our time in Germany and begins our time in France. We sucessfully completed our part of the wall project at the Barn, as the missionaries there so affectionately call the Europe Ministry Center for its former life. After we stuck all the insulation on the walls, we had to put more adhesive onto the outer side and glue a mesh on. So, since the glue, which we also liked to call goop, was white and very spreadable, we began to come up with other terms for it. It was cookie dough and milkshake, but most commonly we called it frosting. And, since it is nigh impossible to spread goop on the walls without some of it dropping onto the ground below, whenever there was anyone working on the second or third level of scaffolding (or upstairs as we liked to call it), the forecast became "cloudy with a chance of frosting," as goop would invariably drop. And, if your head or your arm was in the way, well, you got rained on. I took to wearing a baseball cap to protect my head, but there wasn't really anything I could do about my arms, so they received a vigorous scrubbing at day's end.
'Til later, be blessed, and watch your head ;)
Melody Grace
Today (Sunday) ends our time in Germany and begins our time in France. We sucessfully completed our part of the wall project at the Barn, as the missionaries there so affectionately call the Europe Ministry Center for its former life. After we stuck all the insulation on the walls, we had to put more adhesive onto the outer side and glue a mesh on. So, since the glue, which we also liked to call goop, was white and very spreadable, we began to come up with other terms for it. It was cookie dough and milkshake, but most commonly we called it frosting. And, since it is nigh impossible to spread goop on the walls without some of it dropping onto the ground below, whenever there was anyone working on the second or third level of scaffolding (or upstairs as we liked to call it), the forecast became "cloudy with a chance of frosting," as goop would invariably drop. And, if your head or your arm was in the way, well, you got rained on. I took to wearing a baseball cap to protect my head, but there wasn't really anything I could do about my arms, so they received a vigorous scrubbing at day's end.'Til later, be blessed, and watch your head ;)
Melody Grace
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