I suppose a few pictures here will remind us of possibly the lesson we all remember the most. Here we are enjoying water for the first time after time spend in the hot desert. Give me your thoughts on En-gedi!
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Two week hiking and studying trip to Israel.
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Whee! I can hear, feel, and experience it all over again! That makes me excited.
climbing, sweaty, hot, very hot! and wait did i mention sweaty and hot? and then we come to this!! cool refreshing water and lots of it kept me going all day!! Could it be "Living Water" from Bethlehem?
I won't ever forget as we were getting out of the pool there at the end, when RVL said "Now, never forget what the presence of God feels like!" When you feel you can't go one more step. Who brings you to the presence of God? Who do I bring to the presence of God? I remember Perry and Melissa walking with me on that dizzingly hot afternoon, Jonas offering me his water with electrolytes, someone carrying my pack. What a day of extreme lows and extreme highs! And so much a picture of our spiritual journey. Times we can't go on anymore, people walking with us, the refeshment of God's presence. And remember, the wetter we are the more we can endure the desert heat! So let's get into His presence! Love you all.
The thought I couldn't shed all day when we saw such beauty in the midst of such dry, rocky land was....How on earth could David and his men leave this place??? But life is like that--circumstances, people, God Himself, calls us to step away from the paradise (while storing it up in our hearts), and find somebody who knows only broken cisterns!!! The blessing is we get to minister to them and then take them back with us to the only true water in the world! En-gedi will always be one of my sweetest memories, and I want God's living water to be a constant reality in my heart.
What an awesome day this was! God showed me what community is all about when some of us followed RVL on down to a deeper pool and the water was deeper at the entrance that he had thought and you had to swim over a bit b-4 you could touch the bottom. this is a problem since I can't swim, but my community insisted I come in anyway, that they would help me. The scary part was letting go of that bottom wrung and placing my life totally and completely in their hands and allowing them to pull me out of the deep water to where I could stand up. I felt kinda like a nudnik but WoW, it was worth it. I will never forget that. I need community to get me thru the deep water!!!
hy from Waslala, Nicaragua sorry JR i got down here before you did!Lol but this is the first time i´ve had time to read my email since i´m down here and it felt like engedy all over again!! thanks so much for the picketers Roy!! and congratulations to Lewis, Greg (even if is sow you since then) Andrea and Philip!! did i miss someone? lol. its so good to hear from all of you!
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