I finally feel like Marseille is becoming more of a second home to me and can't believe that I only have three weeks left here after this weekend. Well, really 2.5 if you subtract the half week that I will be in Paris. Below I recap what's been going on here lately, what's new, etc. which includes updates on the resurrection day dance in Toulouse (city that's 5 hours away by car) and whatever else comes to mind!
A group of 20 or so from my church here went to Toulouse this past weekend in order to participate in a resurrection day dance demonstration. We left at 6 AM on Saturday and it was so much fun just being around everyone-- road trips truly make bonding inevitable, even when everyone is tired. We arrived at the church there and jumped right into practice behind the church. The ground was pretty rocky and not paved, and in my opinion, this ground was not suitable and borderline dangerous to practice a dance on it especially when there is a jump in the routine.
Let's be honest, I was thinking to myself ==wouldn't it be a good idea to impress my new friends by doing a jazz leap for the one part that we all jump off of the ground and throw our hands up. . . so when it came time to run a few steps and jump, i definitely did my leap. I went up and came straight back down onto my bottom. I did the whole "shifty eyes"/hope-nobody-saw-me-fall glance around and got right back into the routine. When it was time to take a break, I went over to stand by everyone trying to play it cool as if nothing had just happened. Little did I know that I'd been walking around playing it cool with this white crumbly rock substance that had smeared all onto the back of my black nike shorts and black leggings. For the rest of Saturday, everyone and especially this youth boy, Maxim, didn't forget to remind me not to fall.
Saturday night, families (members) of the church there volunteered to house us in groups of two and three. My french family was so great! They reminded me so much of a mixture of families from the Living Hopes in B/CS. They also had chickens like the Millers! (my comm group fam at LHBCB) AND they had a rooster. I am convinced that God knew how much I missed going to comm group at the millers and brought me to this family.
Sunday we went to church together and drove back that afternoon. I got home around 7:30 PM and skyped into our first Haiti team meeting at LHBC an hour later.
I am so excited for everything that God will do in Haiti this summer and am in the process of preparing a prayer guide to send out. Please leave me your email address if you'd like to receive a prayer guide and pray for us! I've been emailing back and forth with different people, and I am truly encouraged by all of my brothers and sisters in Christ. I praise God for y'all! Your faith encourages me, and I hope this encouragement is mutual.
In the midst of working, living, and trying to figure out what I will be doing with my life, I am learning to wait on the Lord, to seek Him first on everything, and take everything day by day knowing that God's got everything under control even when different unexpected events leave me momentarily flustered. Flustered yet joyful, broken yet peaceful, weak yet strong.
I am praying for all of you, and I can't wait to see most of y'all very very soon ;)
Love,
Grace
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