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Marching orders…
Being in an inquisitive frame of mind,
I sent off an email to ‘my’ personal prayer team, saying:

- “I feel that God is asking me to do stand-up in the non-church sector,
But I don’t know how to go about it…”

the sentence was barely written,
not even sent yet, when:
Driiiing! 
I get an invitation to a comedy festival in the south of France
in two months’ time.

After the show:
Jesus’ garden
we don’t go into the forest much these days because my leg’s broken
(but I don’t hold that against it)

Surrounded by a thousand smells and birdsong, I’m sitting in the garden with Jesus. We listen to the plants growing, while the sunrays that he made for this little corner of the universe flood all we can see with a light that’s both cool and welcomingly warm at the same time.
(Wow, this dialogue is awesome!)

That day, I was talking to him about a show that
had had a real impact on the town’s teenagers,
but at the same time had disappointed some Christians,
who were expecting something better.

Discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, disdited (I know, that doesn’t make sense, but it rhymes )I just wanted to give up. 
Bang! a sudden thought came to me:

- “If I asked you to do this, it’s because I believe you’re capable of doing it…”
- “Tenthousandthunderingblunderingtyphoons! But of course!”

I got up, I revised it, I said ‘come on, shake a leg’(shake a leg, geddit?)

- “I can do it, I have to!”
The show was a complete success.

That day, in the garden,
I grew in maturity.

Alain"
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  string(3976) "Mission impossible
Right under my comic-writing workshop
is a cellar filled with soil (in some places it reaches the ceiling)
I'm digging in there with all my might with a pickaxe,
shovel and wheelbarrow.

The plan is to make a music room.

This makes me think of the huge scale of the task I set myself
when I want to reach "Mr Everyman" with the gospel through my comic books
(or to give my testimony on CNN, or become friends with the Chinese emperor,
or harder still, to convince my wife what’s the point of football)

Everyday faithfulness   
To be honest, I’m not making much progress,
but I keep digging for 1 or 2 hours without fail every day - I’ll get there in the end!

Strangely enough, I even look forward to sweating it out during these moments of hard work, because I can listen to the Bible on my mp3-player,
these are special moments of intimacy with my heavenly Father*.
(*by "father" I mean God, because my "earthly" father doesn't know how to fly yet)

The little workman
The other day, my little Benjamin –he’s just turned 8-
Decided he was going to help me - he was really determined about it.
This little fellow is really pleased to be able to work alongside me and chat.
We have wheelbarrow races (he always wins!)
Benjamin, he means pure happiness to me.

Too small
Just one shovelful from Dad makes his small wooden wheelbarrow overflow!
He stopped for a moment and noticed that I put a lot
more into my wheelbarrow  than he did in his.
He tried to impress me by wheeling my barrow.
After a massive effort, all he managed to do was to knock it over.

My little man was disappointed:
- "Oh Dad! It’s no use, I’m not helping - my wheelbarrow is so small that we’ll never finish"

I stopped, knelt down and looked at him with love:
- "Benjamin, what matters to me is not finishing the work as quickly as possible,
but just to do it with you."


What Dad loves,
is to be with you.


Alain"
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  string(8127) "The great wall of Europe

I’ve watched it go up all around France. Some people call it secularity (the separation of church and state).
This wall stops the Gospel from getting through to the masses
(they who need it so badly).
It’s getting higher and higher all over the Western world…

The weapon!
So I decided to create a ‘weapon’ that could batter a way through the wall.
After more than 2 years, it was ready at last: A new comic book!!

Trojan Horse
Unlike my previous works, this new book says little about God
(in order to get past the uncompromising scrutiny of the sentries on the wall)
Once we’ve made it inside the major department stores and media outlets in France,
We wait for the readers to become hooked - (it’s like a kind of drug, actually!)
 So they’ll want to buy the other comics.
(thus the wall will be breached from the inside!)

Invisible reinforcements
This morning, I went walking in the forest,
I was lost in my thoughts, even as I was talking to God about it all.

I suddenly looked up and was amazed to see
that I was totally surrounded by white blossoms,
(they hadn’t been there last time I looked!)
(what’s more, the damp, glossy look of the foliage gave it an almost fluorescent appearance).
It was as if a whole section of the Heavenly host was all around, thousands and thousands of angels…

Without thinking, I brandished a branch that I was carrying and shouted!
- ‘Charge! Over the wall!!!’

Surprised by my own outburst,
I gave a quick glance behind me:
There were no men in white coats in sight (you know…the ones who fit people with straitjackets!)

And so I went home (the flowers stayed there).

Today, what might have seemed crazy to someone listening to me in that forest, is about to happen:

I’m about to sign a contract with a retailer which targets the non-religious market in the European country where there’s the most resistance to the Gospel.

My attack begins at mid October.

Alain
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