Joyeux Noël!

Aux chers amis en Europe:
Quel dommage qu'il ne soit pas possible pour vous d'être ici en Australie cette mois! Il n'y a point de neige en ce moment
- oui, un peu de feu, dans le sud -
et selon les prévisions, il y aura des inondations dans le nord de ma région, mais PAS du tout près de Sydney où j'habite!

Joyeux Noël! Je pense de chacun de vous, mes amis assez froids, et je continue de prier pour vous!


Anglophone readers may start reading from This Point Forward!
I hope that you have had as restful & joyful a Christmas as it is possible to have. Thanks for getting behind me & supporting me this year, in your own ways.

As I write the rain falls steadily outside. It is after 10PM (22h) here in Sydney, and another Christmas is nearly over.


Matthieu et ma lutte
As you may have picked up, I've been spending time with apostle, writer & former publican Matthew. Since exhausting my study of the talentas parable in ch. 25, I've read to the end of ch. 28, then doubled back to the beginning again (I'd started around ch. 9).

And the fighting has begun.

I'm having some issues over some things Matthew records the Lord Jesus Christ saying in ch. 5 - verses 21 to 26 as well as 38 to 48.

Issues in that I'm trying to think through what the application of those verses are for me.

And I'm divided within myself about it.

If you pray, please pray for wisdom and obedience about this.
It would be an understatement to say that being wise or obedient in response to these verses is somewhat difficult for me.

Oh what a Christmas.

But, after all, if the Saviour born is truly Christ, the Lord.. .. ..

L/T.