{"id":12082,"date":"2017-01-23T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/?p=12082"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T15:36:33","slug":"le-gars-au-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/le-gars-au-baton\/","title":{"rendered":"The guy with the stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12083\" src=\"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poele-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"poele\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poele-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poele.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Translation of a text from the French book &#8220;Date in the forest 1&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u201cWhat on earth is that guy going to do with that bit of wood in his hand ?! Oh well&#8230; he doesn\u2019t look so bad, he\u2019s probably not going to hit us\u2026\u201d This is what passers-by must think when I come back from my daily walk in the forest, because each time I bring back a wooden stick.<\/p>\n<p>Just as sure as the weather is warm at the moment, I know that the winter cold will come. That\u2019s why I\u2019m asking God for a wood stove to heat my comic book studio with its broken windows. So while waiting, as I know that He will give it to me: I am already getting the wood ready.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flowers that fly<\/strong><br \/>\nI walk on to a stretch on the edge of the forest that is particularly full of light, and right there: Whoosh! A multitude of multi coloured butterflies have all taken wing around me\u2026 I so love these moments of conversation with Jesus, they are sometimes (not always) totally magical&#8230; I look at my hand: is that really a branch I\u2019m holding\u00a0? For an entire half-second, I thought it was His hand. My walk smells good this morning, it must be the flower fairies letting off little farts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The loveliest reward<\/strong><br \/>\nIf God didn\u2019t surround me with this whole little word, I\u2019m sure I wouldn\u2019t manage to keep the boat steady\u2026 Yesterday it was a young girl who came to stay overnight in our improvised guest-room. Having decided to go back to art college, she has come to help me in the studio. She was converted to a life with God three years ago\u2026 by reading one of my comic books\u2026 I think of all those winters believing in this, against the flow, and here\u2019s another person who is being born again, like the Spring all around me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translation of a text from the French book &#8220;Date in the forest 1&#8221; &#8211; \u201cWhat on earth is that guy going to do with that bit of wood in his hand ?! Oh well&#8230; he doesn\u2019t look so bad, he\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/le-gars-au-baton\/\">More&#8230;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/le-gars-au-baton\/\">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-12082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082","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=12082"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12091,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions\/12091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}