I kept scraps of pieces of journals during the wild ride of a fantastic guided worldwind blitz thru Israel and Jordan. I labored myself with over 2000 pics and freq lagged behind and prob missed salient bits of info from Doran, our guide, who kept us hopping. He was a 35 yr veteran of the scene there and knew everyone which amazed us and kept us in good stead with the hotspots, both popular and out of the way, and of course the shops, where we got some pretty good deals. For instance he had been unable to get into Jordan and Bethlehem for several years, but now he was welcomed back with hugs and kisses as things have relaxed.
I am not going to belabour the points of the journey here as that can be tedious. The problem now is keeping in sinc with what this all means now. Unfortunately there is a diminution and dimming of the experience by others and myself as to it's importance. I believe there are those who are critical of pilgrams who went and 'walked where Jesus walked', who know in their hearts that returning pilgrams are no more experts or Christianized than they are--and they are absolutely correct. Unfortunately the discussion never takes place and that is that and is a dead issue--like the Dead Sea--which is dead because it just recieves and never gives.
It is sad that we have become a society of instant networking, everything is at our fingertips and internet, so that real social interaction is becoming, again, a dead thing of the past; therefore it becomes a very lonely existence. unless of course if you get your bang out of facebook, etc. I admit I do that some but it lacks the real thing. We could use all of these modern blessings to the Glory of God if we would be more respectful of each other and seek His Plan for us.
I will touch on the Palestinean and Israeli issues. It is a much better than the news portray. We visited the Bethlehem Bible College and were amazed at the concepts and energized way that they are providing for the people there, all 3, Pals, Jews and Christians alike.
We would be amiss by not publicizing this and making donations, not only money but spiritual contributions thru our churches and communities. More on this later.
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