bonjour! we arrived at Taize after a sleepless night of travel. we are about to train to Paris, but with some free time we came to check email, baseball scores, and update for all of you. this computer is terrible...please forgive the terrible typing.
Taize is a monastery in France. Brothers live here year round and people come from all over to spend a day, a week, or months here. look up taize.fr.
to sum up our time here, Jared said this morning, "I feel like all we've done here is eat, pray, and love." Hahaha. it's a pretty good summary though. we've had lots of bread and chocolate (Sophie is thrilled). we spend time in common prayer services three times a day. and we've met lots of interesting people on their journeys here.
we attended a great seminar on the eucharist led by a brother. there has been a lot of singing in different languages. sophie is grateful for all her times in Catholic mass and that she took french...it's helped! we have had a lot of down time, so we both read a ton. Jared finished "extremely loud and incredibly close" and Sophie read "traveling mercies" by Anne Lamott.
we're off to 2 days in Paris, then Switzerland where we are going to L'Abri. we'll update again when we come.
avec amour,
soph & jared
"we played volleyball" - frans from sweden (on how he helped grow the young adult group up from 2 in his church of 300)
Soph & Jared!!!! Its truly AMAZING to reAd your blogs thus far! Keep the updates comin! I'm loving it. Hey let me know if you guys have any needs. I didn't buy you a blender or nice sheets purEly for the purpose of reserving it for something along the way. Let me know! Love you guys and continue living it up!
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