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A Prayer for the Ephesians Eph. 3:14-21

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in heaven derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.


Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen!


Sunday, July 7, 2013

Doing Well in June 2013

Hi,

I hope things are well with you! In May and June I have been quite well, and even went on a trip I have been planning for a few years. All three of us were able to go via Air France to Paris and spend 12 days in France! We didn't spent much time in Paris, but saw Reims and Chantilly, and then headed to Normandy. About 8 days were spent in Normandy because it may be the home of my Lesueur ancestors. My ancestor, Joseph Lesueur or Lazzieur, was married in Maryland, in the American colonies in 1702. We are not sure specifically where his family was from as there were many Lesueur's in Normandy, Picardy, and Paris by the time Joseph came along. That story would make another blog.

However, I have wanted to go to France since I was 15 and saw pictures of Versailles. I spent time last year working out where I would want to go, and began praying about when to go. As I was looking up airline schedules and hotel locations, ads for group tours started to pop up on my computer's monitor. After studying several, I realized only one of them would go to the places I wanted to see and stay in one place the length of time I wanted to remain there. So we made the arrangements to go with a tour that would start from Paris and go overland to Chantilly, Reims, and Cabourg. Then we would board a riverboat that would go down the Seine and take us to Paris.

It worked out very well! If you have carcinoid, of course, you wonder, "What will I do on the days I get sick?" I got sick one day while we were at the Grand Hotel in Cabourg and on another day while we were travelling down the Seine. I was sick in the morning and went on the afternoon excursion at 2:00 pm. We never had to change any travel plans.I did miss going to see the famous tapestry at Bayeux, but I began to get better by 9:00 am, and had a lovely walk around Cabourg. I visited gardens, the shopping district, and a local creperie by 1:00 pm.

These photos show the Chateau Chantilly; Reims Cathedral; American Cemetery; Normandy Dancers; Eifel Tower; Notre Dame du Paris, and a garden in Cabourg in Normandy.





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