Leaving Israel today.
I am ever so grateful that, in a moment of "Let's just do it", that Mike and I booked this trip.
Would so recommend this A&K tour to anyone. It's the 30,000 feet view of Israel. You get the highlights, and then several times during the day, time to be still and absorb. Recharge. Reflect.
Note, Mike said I should have used light-years not feet in the above paragraph, because light-years is a really cool unit of measuring distance. I stuck with feet.
Our guide does the highlights. In interesting story format.
It is not every detail, but I didn't want that.
It is the footsteps of Jesus, amidst the history of the Jews and the more modern history of the Muslims. Which is the reality of our modern times.
What moments will follow me home?
Sitting on the shores of Galilee with Mike, at the church of St Peter, near Capernaum. Reading the last chapters of John. This is what it looked like, when Jesus appeared to Peter, James, John, Andrew as resurrected. Ate with them. And asked Peter three times, Do you love me.
Sitting on the Southern Steps of the Temple Mount. The very stones that were there when Jesus would have walked up them.
And the mayhem at Bethlehem, not because it upset me in the least. Only because Bethlehem today is what Jesus is not. He is grace, spirit, eternal, forgiveness, peace, love.
We worship a living God, one who is not housed in a building, and we don't need to pay anything to approach him.
The price was paid 2,000 years ago.
His house is the Kingdom of God.
And we are its citizens.
How cool is that?
I am ever so grateful that, in a moment of "Let's just do it", that Mike and I booked this trip.
Would so recommend this A&K tour to anyone. It's the 30,000 feet view of Israel. You get the highlights, and then several times during the day, time to be still and absorb. Recharge. Reflect.
Note, Mike said I should have used light-years not feet in the above paragraph, because light-years is a really cool unit of measuring distance. I stuck with feet.
Our guide does the highlights. In interesting story format.
It is not every detail, but I didn't want that.
It is the footsteps of Jesus, amidst the history of the Jews and the more modern history of the Muslims. Which is the reality of our modern times.
What moments will follow me home?
Sitting on the shores of Galilee with Mike, at the church of St Peter, near Capernaum. Reading the last chapters of John. This is what it looked like, when Jesus appeared to Peter, James, John, Andrew as resurrected. Ate with them. And asked Peter three times, Do you love me.
Sitting on the Southern Steps of the Temple Mount. The very stones that were there when Jesus would have walked up them.
And the mayhem at Bethlehem, not because it upset me in the least. Only because Bethlehem today is what Jesus is not. He is grace, spirit, eternal, forgiveness, peace, love.
We worship a living God, one who is not housed in a building, and we don't need to pay anything to approach him.
The price was paid 2,000 years ago.
His house is the Kingdom of God.
And we are its citizens.
How cool is that?
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