First Days in Israel

We arrive about 5:30 Wednesday Morning, minus our luggage, walked to the Promenade to get a birds eye view of the old city, and visited the Garden tomb.

Thursday brought us to the old city to see the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and a visit to the Shuk (an open air market).

Friday morning was spent in class, during the afternoon we cleaned house and did prep work for dinner then went to the western wall to welcome the Sabbath.

Below are a few pictures.

Strawberries at the Shuk

Windows in the Lutheran Tower

The Garden Tomb

Chocolate at the London Airport

January In Review

January has brought mostly snow. About 3ft of it. And as a result of afore mentioned snow January has also been filled with warm socks, hats that cover my ears, and a lot of tea and coffee.

Classes from January include Genesis, and Daniel. The main thing I got out of Genesis class was not building security towers. When God calls us to something we can and should trust Him fully. We don't need a backup plan; we don't need to give God room to fail. He won't. One example we saw of this was Abraham when he went to Egypt told the Egyptians that Sarah was his sister in order to protect himself. He was worried about his own safety and build a tower for himself of lies and deception to protect himself. God had already promised to bring a mighty nation from Abraham, God would have taken care of Abraham if he had only trusted. There are plenty of places in my life where trusting God seems like the dumb thing to do....But God's calling aren't required to be logical, their just supposed to be obeyed.

Daniel was a class of standing alone. We were encouraged not only to have standards and values but to also stand up for them.

I was going to post a few pictures from January, but it will have to wait. I told the nephews that I wouldn't look at the pictures without them here, and they're still outside, so, maybe later.

2011

This is my first post in 2011, though I do not say I will post more often in this year than I did in the last I so say I will think about doing so.

2011 so far has been blessed. It started with driving back to school with my Brother-in-law. It is the only road trip I have been on with just him and also the only road trip where the keys have been locked in the car, "coincidence? I think NOT!" And even though the gas station we were at was closing, before it kicked us out to stand shivering in the cold they did allow us to call AAA on their phone (ours were both locked in the car...). Thankfully we didn't have to wait more than 5-10 minutes because the AAA places was right around the corner, and the quickly came and opened the door. Which by the way was ridiculously simply if you have the right tools, my Dad's mantra of "locks were made for honest people" rings yet more true. That was the only worth-talking-of happening on the trip. And now, it's later than when I started and I am going to bed.