My Trip to Paris: No Yellow Jacket Protestors In Sight

Drove from Wiesbaden to Paris (a distance of approximately 545 kilometers or 338 miles). It drizzled all the way there (and during most of the 5 days we were in the Paris area).

On our way, we stopped at 2 rest areas which were really just Restaurant with public bathrooms.  However, the stops will cost you: one WC required 10 euros to use; the other 40 euros. And this nickel-and-dime mentality is what convinced me more than ever of the good ol' US of A being economically better off than the ol' country, LoL.

No Parisian protestors in sight during our entire visit, thank God.
Hint: If possible, go to Paris on a weekday, not a weekend.  The Lord must have directed us in this regard as our visit was scheduled for Monday to Friday -- way before there was any hint of trouble.  As always, watch out for tricksters and pickpockets (at times one and the same).

Our visit to the Eiffel Tower was the one day that the sun broke through the clouds! The Paris bus tour was worth it. Thankful for the photographic skills of hubby.

Thru the looking-glass of the Paris City Vision Bus

 Champ de Mars (greenspace) and Tour Montparnasse (skyscraper)

1 Samuel 25

Claylight Sconces in Paris

Photo by Lightexture 

Paris Info

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Will You or I Be Bundled With Tares or Wheat?

Satan sowing seeds

Another parable put he [Jesus] forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. (Matthew 13, KJV)

Sinners of the same sort will be bundled together in the great day: a bundle of atheists, a bundle of epicures, a bundle of persecutors, and a great bundle of hypocrites. Those who have been associates in sin, will be so in shame and sorrow; and it will be an aggravation of their misery -- Matthew Henry

Abigail pronouncing a blessing upon David

my Hope in Christ: bundle of Life!

Gospel According to Matthew, Chapter 13

Parable of the Tares (weeds)