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 Homepage | The person | The family | The friends | Sitemap | Search | Contact  News  Year 2006 Français | English | Español |  Print2 February 2006, the Feast of Light    the Feast of Light 2006 To the Faith and Light Communities Dear Brothers and Sisters, I wish your communities and your families a lovely Candlemas feast! I am happy to be writing to you today. As you may have heard, in mid-December Laurent’s health took a sudden turn for the worse and we have been very worried about him. We have had to learn to live day by day, appreciating Laurent’s life and his fight for it, in the midst of worries and numerous question marks. Laurent is now a little better, but our courageous little man will remain very frail and now needs more care and presence at his side. He has required that we give the best of ourselves over the last few weeks. We are rather tired, but the fact that I was able to pass on the work for Faith and Light to someone else during this troubled time has been of great assistance to me. Roy took over in an admirable way and assumes his role of international vice-coordinator by making his time available: I am profoundly grateful to him and I would also like to thank with all my heart the various teams who are hard at work preparing the international meeting in Spain in July with confidence. The friendship and prayer of our Faith and Light community has also been a great comfort to us. They have been like a real family united around Laurent. I’m attaching a rather unique photograph. It’s a photograph that we took on the 17 December, at the beginning of the afternoon just before a storm broke – Laurent was far away from us, in the operating theatre. This small sign comforted us. Is it a heart, a bird, a sign of Peace? The Holy Spirit? A sign of God’s love? In any case it was a source of soft light that shone through the most menacing clouds! You can interpret it in your own way, but on our side we couldn’t help thinking about Meb and the emblem of Faith and Light, and we took strength and trust from that. " Sometimes the sea is raging, sometimes it’s dead calm, sometimes you have to row, sometimes the wind blows into the sails.. » Meb the painter had really understood this well in drawing the boat that became the emblem of Faith and Light. What Meb wanted to express in the comment he made of his drawing is simple and profound: “The clouds opened up and your light, Lord, came down towards us”. Yes, Lord, You are the light that comes to inhabit our hearts throughout all the storms of our lives. So many parents, persons with a disability and friends have discovered this thanks to Faith and Light. And if Jesus is there, sleeping in the hull of the boat, then why be afraid? Isn’t the most important thing not to let go, to trust in him, whatever storms we have to ride through? Blessed are we if our heart is resting in Jesus’ peace, particularly during our most difficult days. As Robert Lebel sings: « Nothing will ever separate us from love, not death nor life, not fire nor the cold, not the day nor the night, not hunger nor thirst, not chains nor threats..” It’s this strength and this trust in Jesus, Light in our lives that I wish you with all of my heart. Wishing you all a lovely feast, United in Him, all my love. Viviane  |
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