Nathaniel speaking: ‘ Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ John 1:42 What Nathaneal is really saying is that Jesus is low class. Strange this that every church in every town and village we travel through states: ‘this is built to that Carpenter’s glory. Jesus the ‘ humble circumstance’ person.’ Veynes is a commune inContinue reading “Veynes”
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Sabbath cycle to church
A cycle ride of 50 minutes following a river upstream to a city churchThe grey silt is thick on the banks and sometimes in the middle then there are gaps where water gushes.A church where kind people baptize one of their own An acceptance that God’s voice through the Holy Spirit still speaks.In 27 ADContinue reading “Sabbath cycle to church”
Lac du Bourget to Chambéry
Jesus said something: ‘ It will be more difficult for a rich man to get to heaven than for a camel to get through the eye of a needle. ‘ Mark 10: 25 The eye of the needle was the name for a small gate going into Jerusalem. Sandy says: ‘ To depend on moneyContinue reading “Lac du Bourget to Chambéry”
Thoughts by Lake Annecy
There they are vast mountainsMassive,mega,whopping monstersAnd here it is the wild edgings of a lake Vegetation In its parts miniscule, teeny-weeny,A diminutive of the vastHow?A small of the big OrBig of the small.Two complex worldsElaborate, tortuous.Parts impenetrableThe vast and the teeny- weenyAndHere we are looking on,some know they know,we all know a little but HaveContinue reading “Thoughts by Lake Annecy”
Annecy part 2
The first commandment. God speaking: ‘ You shall not have any other gods before Me.’ Exodus 20 :2 In this post, we will see inside Les Musée- Château d’ Annecy and the Palais de I’lle as well as sympathetic planting in street scenes, and as we leave the town Jardin de Europe. It is always aContinue reading “Annecy part 2”
Annecy
Commandment 2 God speaking: ‘ I am a jealous God don’t carve anything in any likeness and then bow to it.’ ( This is Sandy’s summary it is in full in Exodus 20: 4,5,6. I once offered to buy a cross for a friend, since I travel a lot and I like second hand shops. TheContinue reading “Annecy”
Mount Blanc
Commandment number four: God speaking: ‘Remember, (I created the world in six days) the Sabbath day is the Day of your God, I have blessed it and hallowed it.’ A summary by Sandy. It is in full over four verses. Exodus 20: 8-11. We go in relative comfort with ah and squeals from children asContinue reading “Mount Blanc”
Yvoire
Number 6 of the decalogue. God speaking: ‘You mustn’t kill.’ Definition for kill: ‘ the ending of another’s life in any way.’ Yvoire is a small medieval town in southeastern France its nickname is ” gem of the lake.” The lake being lake Geneva or Lac Léman from latin, as in Roman times, it wasContinue reading “Yvoire”
Collonges – sous – Salève
God speaking commandment 7: ‘You mustn’t commit adultery.’ Definition of adultery:’ voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a person who is not their spouse.’ Some other words used: unfaithfulness, infidelity, disloyalty, cuckoldry, extramarital sex, affair, liason, intrigue, amour, entanglement, hanky-panky, a bit on the side, fornication. Here is a mountain above the townContinue reading “Collonges – sous – Salève”
The fields of France
Commandment 8 God speaking: ‘ You mustn’t steal.’ Some words for steal: appropriate, blackmail, burglaries, cheat, cozen (steal through trick or deceit),defraud, despoil, heist, housebreak, ,misappropriate, speculate (especially steal from government /public funds),pillage, pinch,pirate,plagiarise. Oxford Dictionary, was I stealing from the dictionary? The fields of France were a sea of green wheat and people busyContinue reading “The fields of France”
Nuits-Saint Georges
Commandment 9 after 10, reading backwards. God speaking: ‘ You must not tell lies.’ Nuits-Saint Georges is in Eastern France. We are going into the historic part of the town. For a night in Nuit- Saint GeorgeThere is peace in an allocated space to park and a long, pleasant path edged by a wall andContinue reading “Nuits-Saint Georges”
Dover to Calais
James speaking about speaking: ‘Out of the mouth comes blessings and cursings. My brothers and sisters, this should not happen.’ James 3:10 Words are very powerful! It takes 1hr 30mins to travel by ferry from Dover to Calais, and the day is so bright and clear that once in Calais, we could still see theContinue reading “Dover to Calais”