"...His greatness is unsearchable"

First: Waterfall by the caves
Second: Roman temple
Third: Roman reinacments
Fourth: More Romans
Fifth: Roman ampitheatre


I have been here a few days over a week and the great things I have been able to do and people I have talked to have made me find myself saying a phrase that has been very familiar in my life, "I never would have guessed me here".
Classes started this week- we have it five days a week, four hours a day. We took a placement test Tuesday and we started classes on Wednesday. The first day was a bit intimidating, primarily because as the professor was “reviewing”, she was asking us to do things that I have never learned before. But after getting over the fact that I will simply have to play catch up with the grammar aspect, I am really enjoying class. The cultural dynamic of my class is very interesting. It is made up primarily of Chinese students, a few from Saudi Arabia and Japan, one from Sweden, and another girl in my program and I are the only Americans. Sometimes at the end she will pare us up with people from another culture and we talk in French about things that are different between us. I have loved getting to find out so much more things about the Chinese, as well as the French culture! I often leave class enthusiastic to take what I have learned in the classroom and use it with the new French speaking friends I have made.
Before I left I had looked up churches online and found that was having a get together for international student’s night before last, it entailed all of the churches in Grenoble met for a “Barbeque”. When I say Barbeque, it was nothing like one in the States- but it was lots of fun! It was also very humbling. Usually I am the one ministering to a different people coming in or organizing an event, but it was weird being the guest. Sometimes I felt like a three year old, because I initially had a hard time communicating, but I met a group of really nice people and combined with my broken French and their broken English we laughed a lot and had a good time. At the end, they taught us all four different old French dances- I didn’t catch the name of them, but they were so much fun! I also enjoyed hearing people who love Jesus sing His praises in the tongue that I am trying to learn. I had a very good time and look forward to continuing to get to know and worship with the great people that I met.
Today we went to a city in France called Vienne; it used to be a major Roman city and we got to see LOTS of Roman ruins. Also, once a year the museum there hosts an event where people dress up in authentic Roman garb from different eras as they run different stations about original Roman culture. It was fun to see a lot of what I learned in my history books come to life!
Day before last our group went hiking and got to see some very neat caves. Interesting note- they started giving tours of that cave in 1867! Right next to the cave entrance was a lot of beautiful landscape to hike through with access to a breathtaking waterfall. If you know me well or have been on a tip with me, you know that I am not really one to take pictures. I would rather write down what is going on, or simply experience it and then mooch off of the five other cameras that are taking the same picture. But this day I felt inspired for some reason to try and capture the beauty I saw through taking a picture. Of course, I tried from all different angles and all different settings… and none of them would suffice to do the place an inch of justice. As I continued the walk through the area, frustrated with my camera, I was able to marvel and thank the Lord that both He and His creation seem to be that way… unable to be summed up or done justice. Sure pictures provide opportunity for great comparisons and metaphors, but those always fall short or break down. Praise our Father that we serve a God whose neither depth we can not capture or greatness we can not comprehend. “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, His greatness is unsearchable”. I hope and pray that the life that has been given to be may be one that is filled with searching this unsearchable greatness-for the Lord's glory and fame