{"id":11807,"date":"2016-11-16T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:44:48","slug":"lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roitep-4-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roitep-4-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berty* family\u2019s incredible date (Part 4, final part)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"m_5993956411853626668western\" lang=\"fr-FR\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/feu-tarot-w-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/feu-tarot-w-1.jpg\" alt=\"feu-tarot-w\" width=\"200\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/feu-tarot-w-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/feu-tarot-w-1-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><b><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_5993956411853626668western\" lang=\"fr-FR\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_5993956411853626668western\" lang=\"fr-FR\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"m_5993956411853626668western\" lang=\"fr-FR\"><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><br \/>\nThe power of the Bible<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Each person\u2019s heart begins to change. K\u00e9rane opens up little by little and feels more at ease. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A ray of sunshine warms up the atmosphere in their home and dispels the mystical fog. Alex wakes up from a long sleep and \u2018washes off\u2019 the negative image he had of himself. He gets involved in bringing up the children, becomes a stakeholder in the organisation and decisions of the family. V\u00e9ro, who is accustomed to doing it alone, feels that she is being supported. Unburdened in this way, she naturally finds more room for their love. She learns to lean on his shoulder and on God\u2019s, to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>let go<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. You\u2019d think giving up her inner fears and her desire for control would be easy, but for her it means re-learning her life, her way of thinking from scratch. What\u2019s more, giving up her role of \u2018preacher of life\u2019s lessons\u2019 has something fundamentally restful about it (for everyone!)\u2026 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">During the summer holidays the two families now meet up every week and at the weekend. Round the table, they all speak with joy and passion, like pirates on the lookout for treasure. Questions find answers in the Bible, a well that they draw from as from an inexhaustible source of hope. The personal stories of the different individuals are like the description of lands that they are about to conquer. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Alex, such an introvert, has clearly come right out of his usual shell and even he shares in the general enthusiasm. And if, at 3 o\u2019clock in the morning, good sense urges them to go to bed<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, quite oblivious to it and completely overjoyed, they promise pretty quickly to put off that idea! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>The deal <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">That night, before going to sleep, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">V\u00e9ro<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> makes a deal with God (those two are getting closer and closer):<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Listen, you get Satan out of my nightmares and I\u2019ll give you my dreams &#8230; How\u2019s that?\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">She closes her eyes and, right away, she is plunged into a dream that lasts all night in which she sees herself moving house and sorting out the books in her bookcase.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When she wakes up, she opens her eyes and answers Him:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">OK, I got the message!\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Spring-cleaning<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">With one accord, the Bertys decide to do the cleaning. They throw out the feng shui mirrors, the mirror balls with facets that are meant to provide light, the statuettes of Ganesh and the different Tarot games. From now on, they have no need of these lucky charms and protections, as they have all of that and more &#8230; in Jesus alone! The bookcase in the living-room is also emptied of all its dodgy books. A bonfire is arranged in their garden on which they burn over 1000 euros\u2019 (1100 USD) worth of esoteric books!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The whole family decides to entrust itself to the God of the Bible, to let go&#8230; They no doubt have that sensation of leaping into the void, but that great pressure that was on their shoulders, it has leapt too&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The nightmares are becoming rarer, to the point of disappearing! V\u00e9ro has even visited in her dreams a wonderful garden (Paradise? the Garden of Eden?)&#8230; she walks there in incredible peace in the company of Jesus who invites her to let go, only to end up in her bed again, bathed in perfect peace and rest! This time she is the one who wakes up Alex to tell him! Eva\u2019s imaginary visitors and their macabre din have chosen to flee this power that is greater than them and is now watching over the Bertys. There are no doubt still more challenges inherent in each of their lives, but they will no longer have to face them on their own! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>And the story continues<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">V\u00e9ro got baptised * * in the sea recently (she couldn\u2019t wait any longer!) and sent me some videos of that unforgettable moment. The Purmalt family has bought whole cardboard boxes full of \u2018Date in the forest\u2019 and \u2018Bible express\u2019 and continue to give them away to people around them. And already, I am getting testimonies from several others who have been touched thanks to their action&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>It\u2019ll happen to you! <\/b><\/span><\/span><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I am very deeply moved and encouraged by this testimony (you can\u2019t begin to imagine!), but I feel duty bound to be honest and to admit to you that it has very little to do with me; without Sandra and her family, who made the choice to share their zest for life, this would never have taken place&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In short, this is what can happen when we don\u2019t keep a hope like this just for ourselves!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>* not their real name\u2026<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>* * by \u2018baptise\u2019 don\u2019t understand: to adhere to a new religion (that was never in question)&#8230; it\u2019s just a tangible sign shown in the Bible used to confirm someone\u2019s commitment to Jesus.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/blog\/lincroyable-rendez-vous-de-la-famille-roite\">part 1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/blog\/lincroyable-rendez-vous-de-la-famille-roite-partie-24\">part 2<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/blog\/lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roite-partie-34\">part 3<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of the Bible Each person\u2019s heart begins to change. K\u00e9rane opens up little by little and feels more at ease. A ray of sunshine warms up the atmosphere in their home and dispels the mystical fog. Alex wakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roitep-4-finale\/\">More&#8230;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/lincroyable-rdv-de-la-famille-roitep-4-finale\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11977,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}