Well, the strike did not affect us at all. We weren’t planning anything anyway. The postwoman came, but she only had junk mail. Yet, the regional paper estimates that about 3600 people demonstrated in Guingamp this morning. Not bad when you consider that the population of guingamp and the surrounding villages is about 23000.
Day: September 7, 2010
Tozer on meekness
The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is, in the sight of God, more important than angels. In himself nothing, in God everything. That is his motto. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring. He restes perfectly content to allow God to place His own values. he will be patient to wait for the day when everything will get its own price tag and real worth will come into its own. Then the righteous shall shine forth in the kingdom of their Father. he is willing to wait for that day.
AW Tozer, The pursuit of God.
National Strike
We know we are in France, because there has been a lot of talk in the media about the national strike today. I think it is mainly civil servants, but a lot of people are unhappy about recent changes about retirement age. Fortunately, Jean-Baptiste’s school is opened, so it won’t make any difference to us, except maybe avoid the town center this morning because there is a demonstration planned, and eventually no postman.