Welcome to blog and May blog from Doug Wills.com.

This audio is brought to youth, 2019 by Douglas Wilson. Introduction A week ago my wife and I just finished a delightful

vacation in France and Switzerland and it was really something.

There was wine and there was cheese and historical sites and there was wine and then some food

and then a cheese course.

It was a time and I am still full.

Among the historical sites we visited a fortified village on top of a ridge named Lebou de Provence.

It was at one time a Huguenot stronghold, and across the top of the window in the

picture I took of the old chapel, you can see the engraved motto of the Reformation,

post-Tenabras Luke's, after darkness, light.

Now I can testify that the French know their onions, and their tenderloin, and their fish,

and their cheese and their wines, both red and white.

But sadly, with the exception of a handful of loyal sons and daughters, they don't know their

own history.

And even when they do know some of the facts of that history, they don't know the weight or spiritual significance of those facts.

The decline into ignorance has been tragic, but in certain cases it has been plainly purposeful, not ignorance at all, and that brings us to the point.

There is a willful element to it.

Leboe de Provence

As we were walking up to the village, we were greeted with a series of displays, some works of, you know, art.

They were cut out silhouettes of 8 to 10 foot women, of the kind you might get if a manufacturer of those redneck mudflaps

had a really bad fever dream,

and decided that what was most needed was to get his creations up to a size

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