If you picked a word of the year, how ya doing? If you didn’t it’s never too late. My WOTY keeps kicking me across the room. But that’s the point right? To chose something I excel at, or easily focus [Read more...]
“Why are we stopping in the middle of nowhere for a nothing view?” I sighed after a long day of sightseeing. Devoid of tourists, in a desolate area, our bus stopped lonely on the side of a narrow [Read more...]
Towering above ancient Jerusalem, perched on the place of most holy significance, the Temple Mount stretches high over the minions. But centuries before a bustling city bloomed or a temple idea [Read more...]
I found it most fitting to spy out my bus window, a young shepherd and his faithful dog, herding the sheep in this town famous for it’s angelic revelation to the shepherds in the fields centuries ago. [Read more...]
I am not a follower. Never have been, never will be. Confession number one: My younger leanings were a bit to the rule-breaking, not the rule-keeping side of the spectrum. Confession number [Read more...]
I rubber-necked as we whizzed by several small ski shops. Whaaat?? Snow skiing in Israel? Wouldn’t you just love to know who the first Israelite skier was? I picture a turbaned man with robes [Read more...]
I confess I had no idea. I’ve read through the Old Testament a few times and yet this name was as foreign to me as if I’d never read a word of it in my life. Megiddo even appears eight times in the [Read more...]
The first time I saw them, I had to laugh. Men in business suits and women in dresses and high heels--riding on the back of a motorbike. Few people have cars in Rwanda and motorbikes are [Read more...]