The Best of Intentions

I had the best of intentions. My intention was to blog at the end of each day during our journey through the land. Either it was the age of the blogger or the intensity of the days while traveling with the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies that thwarted my best of intentions.

Therefore, I have decided on the second best approach to recounting the days in the land and recording "lessons from the land." I will write from the perspective of hindsight.

The group from Mississippi arrived at Ben Gurion Airport ahead of schedule. After a brief reunion, we embarked on our journey by traveling up the Coastal Plain, turning east at the Caesarea (Maritima) Junction, passing Megiddo and Nazareth, skirting Mount Tabor, and descending into Tiberias from the south.

Ahead of us, we have four days in the Galilee. Four days seem hardly enough since eighty-five per cent of the ministry of Jesus takes place around the sea and in Upper and Lower Galilee. But we will make do. First things first, the group needs dinner and a night's rest