Sad
I’ve been feeling pants these past few weeks. It’s probably an accumilation of many things: Winter, lack of friends, uncertain future, lack of routine, coming to the end of a training period and being ready to leave. Hmmm. 
Anyway, I went to an inter-church evangelism meeting last night and my spirits were lifted somewhat. The meditation was on Joshua 1 - "Be strong and courageous". In French it translates as ’take courage and hold firm’. It was encouraging to hear that I’m not the only one feeling down at the moment, that we can take courage from the Bible and from Jesus and we are to hold firm…not necessarily move forward with leaps and bounds, but hold firm.
After that I found out there is a community centre just up the road that runs all sorts of activities. One of them being a homework club. I’m going to go tomorrow and see if I can help there. (I’m a bit frustrated that nobody thought to mention it sooner…but then my title is ‘Pastoral Assistant’ so everyone expects me to spend all my time at the church - arghhh!!)
So to round up the story - please pray for me at the moment. A day without structure is hard for me. Moving from schools and bells and timetables to compleate flexability has and is hard. I’m TRYING to build structure, but that again is a cultural difference. Structure and organisation are not important here. I’m going to stop the rant! 
Hey Stacey, my name is Beth and my friend Claire and I are Northern Irish students on ERASMUS at the IUFM here in Orléans for the next3-4 months. I saw that you’re in Orleans with ECM and at the Baptist church that we are hoping to find this sunday or sometime soon. But are you leaving soon? Could you at all send me an email and let me know the time of the service on a sunday morning and when the next English service is? I believe you have one once every 4 weeks?
Comment by Beth Loughrey — February 1, 2008 @ 3:14 pm