{"id":1982,"date":"2010-11-02T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T10:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auderset.com\/\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2011-11-17T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T10:14:52","slug":"en-ive-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/en-ive-grown\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve grown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">Marching orders\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Being in an inquisitive frame of mind,<br \/>\nI sent off an email to \u2018my\u2019 personal prayer team, saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">&#8211; \u201cI feel that God is asking me to do stand-up in the non-church sector,<br \/>\nBut I don\u2019t know how to go about it\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">the sentence was barely written,<br \/>\nnot even sent yet, when:<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">Driiiing! <\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">I get an invitation to a comedy festival in the south of France<br \/>\nin two months\u2019 time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">After the show:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">Jesus\u2019 garden<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">we don\u2019t go into the forest much these days because my leg\u2019s broken<\/span><span style=\"color: #666699; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n(but I don\u2019t hold that against it)<\/span><\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Surrounded by a thousand smells and birdsong, I\u2019m 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\u2019s both cool and welcomingly warm at the same time.<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #666699; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n(Wow, this dialogue is awesome!)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">That day, I was talking to him about a show that<br \/>\nhad had a real impact on the town\u2019s teenagers,<br \/>\nbut at the same time had disappointed some Christians,<br \/>\nwho were expecting something better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, disdited <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #666699; font-family: Arial;\">(I know, that doesn\u2019t make sense, but it rhymes )<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial;\">I just wanted to give up. <em><\/em><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nBang!<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial;\"> a sudden thought came to me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">&#8211; \u201cIf I asked you to do this, it\u2019s because I believe you\u2019re capable of doing it\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; \u201c<strong>Tenthousandthunderingblunderingtyphoons!<\/strong> But of course!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">I got up, I revised it, I said \u2018come on, shake a leg\u2019<\/span><em><span style=\"color: #666699; font-family: Arial;\">(shake a leg, geddit?)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">&#8211; \u201cI can do it, I have to!\u201d<br \/>\nThe show was a complete success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">That day, in the garden,<br \/>\nI grew in maturity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Alain<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marching orders\u2026 Being in an inquisitive frame of mind, I sent off an email to \u2018my\u2019 personal prayer team, saying: &#8211; \u201cI feel that God is asking me to do stand-up in the non-church sector, But I don\u2019t know how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/en-ive-grown\/\">More&#8230;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/en-ive-grown\/\">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-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","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=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auderset.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}