Israel Blog - Part 2

Wednesday 13th May .... a mountain top experience   The day started with me trying to take sunrise photos from the bedroom window across the Sea of Galilee to the Golan Heights. It was 5.00 am and we were on yet another early call. A beautiful morning, the sun rising as a bright orange globe above pink mountains and with swallows sweeping and diving as they caught their early breakfast above the swimming pool. When evening came the swallows were here again but this time we were swimming in the pool and the birds were diving and skimming the water to drink. Wouldn’t the chlorine harm them?? Do you think?   First at the taxi rank we were soon speeding up Mount Tabor to celebrate our final Eucharist beside the church that celebrates the Transfiguration of our Lord. This was a particularly beautiful Church I thought and a very special service. The paintings and striking mosaics and stained glass left no one unsure of thye story. I saw a father there with his two young sons admiring and marvelling and then came the inevitable crowd of teenagers.....from Poland this time.......singing and dancing even though they had walked the path we had rode in the taxi.   We were then on to Nazareth and the Church where the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary.....but it wasn’t the one i had seen before! Next we visited an outdoor museum of life in Nazareth in Jesus time. Very simple and unsophisticated. There were donkeys, sheep and goats.   In the afternoon we visited Cana and sampled the wine. I don’t think it was the stuff in Jesus first miracle but it was good sweet after dinner wine. Special to us as a Mothers’ Union Group was that here, during our usual little service I had the privilege of enrolling Pam as a member. Another miracle in Cana of Galilee.....some would say!!   Now it is 10.30.......I have been up more than 17 hours and I still have to pack. Goodnight. Love Trish x