{"id":5329,"date":"2014-08-21T09:56:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:56:40","slug":"a-few-lines-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/a-few-lines-of-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Lines of Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5330 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C203\" alt=\"Jean-Guy-Jim-Robi-add2\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?w=1382&amp;ssl=1 1382w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?resize=1024%2C695&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?resize=768%2C521&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?resize=900%2C611&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jean-guy-jim-robi-add2.png?resize=1280%2C869&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you Zambia! You have put the fire back into our hearts. You have rejuvenated our spirits. You have given us a sense of well-being. You have affirmed us as Missionaries of Africa as we slowly enter the winter of our lives.<\/span><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Thank you for your warm welcome.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Thank you especially to all our confr\u00e8res from the Provincial and his staff to all the young men we met who were on their journey from the novitiate to their respective countries to begin their stage experience.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>We were amazed at the changes that have taken place since the 27 years that I\u2019ve been away and Jean Guy\u2019s seven.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Our eyes were wide open at the site of cars, traffic jams, asphalt roads, cell phone, TV dishes, soap, cooking oil, salt, water, cheese, flour, cement, iron sheets, etc. being so plentiful.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>We enjoyed all our Zambian friends we met. Their warmth and hospitality is still the same.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>During the Communion hymn, which was being sung by the local congregation, Jean Guy shared with me with tears in his eyes\u00a0\u201cit\u2019s at a moment like this that we realize what we have given up by accepting to do home service.\u201d That says it all.<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>United in Him. God is good!<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em>Gene and Jean Guy<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><em>Link: <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/2014\/07\/31\/visit-of-jean-guy-labrecque-and-jean-claude-robitaille-to-zambia-and-farewell-to-jules-roy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit of Jean-Guy Labrecque and Jean-Claude Robitaille to Zambia and farewell to Jules\u00a0Roy<\/a><\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you Zambia! You have put the fire back into our hearts. You have rejuvenated our spirits. You have given us a sense of well-being. You have affirmed us as Missionaries of Africa as we slowly enter the winter of our lives. Thank you for your warm welcome. Thank you especially to all our confr\u00e8res [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[735,736],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-jean-claude-robitaille","tag-jean-guy-labrecque"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}