He plucked a stem from a plant that was completely closed up. He asked me to put it in my mouth and suck on it. In a few minutes, the plant had opened up again. He said, "How interesting and fascinating that nature knows what to do and knows how to adapt to its environment. It's only humans who struggle with that." To me that was was so poignant and so true. Why do we have such a hard time adapting to our surroundings? It's almost like the more advanced we become technologically, the harder it is for us to adapt. It makes me long for the simple life when we didn't have a piece of metal glued to our ear 24/7; when we actually made better plans with our friends and family, instead of texting; when we didn't rely on a 2-ton machine to get us from place to place and we actually USED OUR GOD-GIVEN LEGS!
I guess that's why it's important for us to "get away" from it all and take vacations and get out in nature. We need to re-connect in nature with the ultimate creator. I wonder about the expression "getting plugged in" and how it's used so much in churches. Technology has unfused every facet of our lives and vernacular that we are lost without it. I desire that time to re-connect with God and get plugged into his mercy and love and compassion and peace.. so much so that it makes me want to chunk my cell phone for good.
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| On the Sea of Galillee |
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| Mount Carmel |
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| Ancient City-BeitShein |
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| Cesarea by the Sea - Herod's Palace |
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| Church of the Nativity - Bethleham |
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| Cesarea by the Sea |
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| Church of the Nativity - Jesus' birthplace |
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| David's Harp - entrance to the city of Jerusalem |
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| This guy translated the bible to Latin |
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| The Garden of Gethsemane - Gethesemane means Olive Press in Hebrew |
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| old theatre in Cesarea by the Sea |
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| Jerusalem |
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| skyline of Tel Aviv |
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| Garden of Gethsemane |
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| Walking to the Garden of Gethsemane |
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| cool shot in Jerusalem |
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| Orthodox Jews at the Wailing Wall |
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| another shot of Othodox Jews |
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| Garden Tomb |
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| Wailing Wall |
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| Wailing Wal |
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| me in the Judean Desert |
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| I did a cheer for the desert! |
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| vegetation in the desert |
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| dead sea in the background |
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| This is my desert. |
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| This is the dead sea - it stung my legs "big time!" |
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| my dad and I floating the sea - that is us way in the back - forgot to Zoom :( |
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| My Desert again |
