Holy Land trip - 2010

Being gone for six weeks is a challenge (and a luxury, I know). Doing last minute things such as notifying credit card companies, getting travellers checks (how much is enough?), stopping mail and newspaper, wondering about lawn mowing ... and getting things straightened away at the church (six bulletins mostly done). Trying to pack light and still have what is needed - knee pads for the dig, hat and sunscreen (though it is wet and cold here today); are any shoes comfortable? Trying to stay well.

This Sunday's sermon will reflect on "land" as God's promise to Abraham (and Sarah and Hagar) whose descendants form the three great monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Did disturbances in Israel/Palestine really start way back then?

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