{"id":11749,"date":"2016-11-09T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2016-11-16T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:41:18","slug":"lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roite-partie-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roite-partie-34\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berty* family\u2019s incredible date Part 3\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The unstoppable virus of faith<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The way home from school has, frankly, become too short to contain the countless questions generated by the reading of Sandra\u2019s book. The two friends talk for a long time outside the house. Then, for a period of three months, <\/span>V\u00e9ro invites her in for a cup of tea, but that\u2019s just an excuse to pester her with questions: \u2018So who is this God Auderset\u2019s talking about?! What? You believe in him too!!?\u2019 …<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sandra is someone who is basically humble and honest, willing to admit that she doesn\u2019t have all the answers, sometimes even questioning whether she is a real Christian. But she answers her friend\u2019s questions as good as she can. When Sandra turns up with the \u2018Bible express\u2019 <\/span>(extracts from the Bible)<\/span><\/span>, it\u2019s bliss! Both of them find answers to their questions. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nicolas, Sandra\u2019s husband, is then called to the rescue. So, an evening meal is arranged between the two families. For the occasion, Alex is given the comic book \u2018Marcel\u2019 <\/span>(by the same author as \u2018Date in the forest\u2019)<\/span><\/span> and he really loves it! It should be noted that the only books he ever reads are comic books… except that he is going to make an exception for this weird book that everyone around him is talking about <\/span>(phew, it\u2019s full of pictures!)<\/span><\/span>. Now the whole Berty family wants to know more and it\u2019s at their insistence that the Purmalt* family initiates them into the exploration of an evangelical bookshop. It is Ali Baba\u2019s cave: they blow their literary budget and complete their collection of Auderset comic books <\/span>(which makes me a kind of \u2018Alainbaba\u2019!)<\/span><\/span>… Even K\u00e9rane puts in some of her own money! <\/span><\/p>\n

The treasure marked by a cross<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Seized with googlesque desire, Alex, in two clicks, comes across the author\u2019s testimony of his conversion. Intrigued, the couple sit down together to listen to it with rapt attention. The little guy explains his life in a simple, modest way. Here it\u2019s no longer a matter of levels of initialisation or of mystical terms and other complications. Entering into a personal relationship with the divine is within a child\u2019s reach. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross finally takes on its full meaning: it was for everyone\u2019s sins, it is for … her!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each member of the family now reads their Bible assiduously <\/span>(each his own one!)<\/span><\/span>. Little Eva even refuses to go to sleep unless her dad reads her a story from it. It touches him that he is discovering them at the same time as she is. The children\u2019s Bible that she has been given has become THE favourite book of the little 6-year-old. She hugs it tightly against her. The place where she keeps this treasure is under her pillow, right next to where she sleeps. It\u2019s no small matter: this book is the word of Jesus who is at work, radically transforming her whole family. What is happening here is something completely out of the ordinary and totally crazy … but absolutely real! <\/span><\/p>\n

The voice of the Good Shepherd<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even if they have greatly reduced, the nightmares still come back. And, horror of horrors, right after one awful attack, <\/span>V\u00e9ro now hears a voice whispering in her head: \u2018You see, God has abandoned you!\u2019 Yet another abandonment!… <\/span><\/p>\n

… Except that this time she hears another one which adds: \u2018Don\u2019t listen to that, God will not abandon you!\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> She still doesn\u2019t know the sweetness of this voice: it is the voice of Jesus, who is entering the game again! It is so soothing that, for once, she manages to go back to sleep!<\/span><\/p>\n

* not their real name\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to be concluded next week…<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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part 1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 part 2 <\/a>\u00a0 part 4<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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