Psalm 111 en francais

Louez tous l'Eternel!
Je mettrai tout mon cœur à louer l'Eternel
dans l'assemblée, dans le conseil des justes.

2 L'Eternel accomplit des œuvres admirables,
elles sont méditées par tous ceux qui les aiment.


3 Ses actes manifestent sa gloire et sa splendeur.
Pour toute éternité, subsiste sa justice.


4 Il veut qu'on se souvienne de toutes ses merveilles.
Oui, l'Eternel est bon et il fait grâce.


5 Il pourvoit aux besoins de ceux qui le révèrent.
Il se souvient toujours de son alliance.


6 Il a manifesté sa puissance à son peuple en agissant pour lui
quand il lui a donné le pays d'autres peuples.


7 Tout ce qu'il fait témoigne qu'il est fidèle et juste,
tous ses commandements sont dignes de confiance,


8 ils sont bien établis pour toute éternité,
fondés sur la justice et la fidélité.


9 Il envoie le salut pour délivrer son peuple,
il conclut avec lui une alliance éternelle.
C'est un Dieu saint et redoutable.


10 La clé de la sagesse, c'est de révérer l'Eternel.
Ceux qui s'y tiennent ont une saine intelligence.
Qui observe ses lois est vraiment avisé.
Sa louange subsiste jusqu'en l'éternité.

There is just something so beautiful about reading and speaking God's Word in French! I know I am biased because I love French, but still, the Bible is beautiful anyways, and then you go and put it in a beautiful language and the beautifulness gets squared. (Maybe that's not entirely scientifically accurate, but you get the idea :)

I ordered a French Bible my senior year of college and I love reading it and going to my favorite verses in English and then seeing how they're different in French, much like different translations will hit you differently, the different language is simply that, another translation, and some of the verses in French hit me harder in French than in English. Plus, the French is just so delightful :) Vive la France!


Ahhhh, La Tour Eiffel :)


and of course, this character is everyone's perception of french people, esp the french language! I can't tell you how many times whenever I tell people I speak french they automatically go "French? like 'hhhhee hhhhee hhhhon hhhhon!' " imitating this french chef and I have to say, "no, not quite like that..." every time, like in the tv show "Friends" when Phoebe tries to teach Joey how to speak French and he crashes and burns horribly :)

Harry Potter, I love you

Ok, so the last time I posted it was a mere three days before the end of Potter, and now I have already seen it twice (in one weekend no less, yes I am that much of a nerd) and I loved it. Some of my friends didn't like it because it deviated from the book but I liked it. I think the deviations keep it fresh in our minds as we won't know completely what to expect when we watch the final product on screen.

Why did I watch it twice in one weekend you ask? Well, the 17th was my mom's birthday so we took most of the family and some family friends to see it together. The only problem is that we went to a high-class theater in Pasadena, one that, let's just say the younger crowd doesn't frequent because the tickets are too expensive. So the crowds there are generally older and don't get as excited during movies. So I watched it with my friend Lindsay on opening night (fellow Potter enthusiast and also fellow staffer with me at USC Christian Challenge :) and we saw it at LA Live in downtown and the crowds there were a ton more fun, as I expected. There were clappings, hootin' and hollerin' and some sniffles in the theater that night. It was awesome. Yours truly cried a couple times, and at the same parts of the film both times I saw it. It was epic and action-packed but still packed an emotional wallop too. It was sad to say goodbye to some of my favorite characters over the years but it had to end at some time right? And whatta way to end it!!

Below is a link to pictures of the main Harry Potter stars with every premiere of each film, going back to 2011 all the way until this movie came out. They all look so cute in the beginning!! Such a great casting job...

http://www.empireonline.com/features/harry-potter-premieres

Now there is nothing to look forward to - no book, no movie, they're all done. So now all that's left is to re-read and re-watch the books and movies, which isn't a huge deal because they're just so darn readable :)

Thank you Harry Potter for being a great and engaging story. It was great growing with you for the last 10+ years!

IT'S COMING!!!

It is finally coming. The end. The final goodbye. The last hurrah if you will. I'm talking, of course, about Harry Potter. As it is the 12th of July we only have THREE more days until we finally get to see in movie form what we already know from the books (if you've read them) or what we've always hoped would happen if we've only seen the movies.

I have seen all the movies and read all the books and I tend to re-read them at random times and out of order. For instance, during July 4th weekend I was in Lake Arrowhead at my parent's cabin and they had Potter books 2 & 3 there so I re-read book 3 and I remember why it's one of my favorites. All the action, intrigue, revelations, etc. Actually, I love books 3 and 6 the best, the movies too for that matter. I mean, really, how amazing a feat is it to create an entire world with a different vocabulary and have it be so enticing to such a huge population??

I was writing some thank you notes the other day and I flipped my computer to youtube to put on some background music and I see a line at the top of the screen - "click here to see the Harry Potter world premiere live in London" ummm, WHAT?? So I click it and get to see Trafalgar Square transformed into a red carpet premiere with thousands upon thousands of fans waiting for even a hint of a glimpse of someone related to the movies to walk by. Some of the London-ers had been camping out for 3 days. That, my friends, is Star Wars mega-fan territory. I wouldn't personally do it, but hey, all the more power to them for doing so! But it was fun to watch for a while as I was writing notes and see the stars in their "normal" attire (normal is relative of course, b/c while they weren't in wizarding robes, they were also all gussied up for the event, so, yeah).

But just THREE DAYS people!! I just got my movie tickets, yes, I know I am late, but I still got tickets and thankfully the theater I'm going to doesn't have assigned seating, so as long as me and my equally-obsessed-with-all-things-Potter-friend Lindsay get there early, we should be fine. Plus, there are only 2 of us, we don't need to worry or coordinate with 10 people (which would be darn fun though, but alas a lot of our Potter friends are out of state right now).

So without further ado, I present you with the trailer for HP7.2, which, judging from the advance reviews, is gonna be a doozy:

http://youtu.be/I_kDb-pRCds

oh, did I mention that I'm seeing it twice opening weekend? Once on opening night of course, couldn't miss that, and again with family on Sunday for my mom's birthday :)