En Gedi

Hey Everyone, Shalom!
I am sitting in the blazing hot lobby of the beautiful youth hostel in En Gedi. Tomorrow we make the pre-dawn climb to the top and watch the sunrise! Sounds fantastic! We are in an area that overlooks the Dead Sea and you can see the mountains of Jordan just behind it! We also face the huge Masada site on the other side. YOu can travel thru these hostels for $20 a nite! We have met a family from Boston that has been traveling with their 3 kids all summer long...and a group of college kids that has 1 from Willow Grove and another from Blue Bell! The world is so small!

We also were amazed to go INTO the Dead Sea today....very incredible. HOT! Muddy, buoyant, and thrilling. Jack was the first to cover himself in mud and he never looked so muscular, nor his teeth so very white! HAHA the photos will show you what I mean! It was amazing.

After that, we climbed a mountain and found a fresh waterfall where David and his mighty men escaped from King Saul as he was pursuing them. It was like an oasis in paradise, just so much to take in to realize that this was the exact place where King David was...not enough words. The swimming was so refreshing after the heat and salt of the Dead Sea!!

I was ready to book a flight home on Saturday am. If I was near a phone... I might have done it. I came to the I HATE *RAEL point. We were staying in the Orthodox Cummunity and the atmosphere was so totally sad and oppressive. I had dreams of prison all night, but then Roy Fields came at the end and picked me up to take me away. Any idea what that one meant??!! I KNOW! The only way out of an oppressive situation is this: WORSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let that be a word for you today...struggling? WORSHIP HIM! The anointing breaks the yoke!
Let me run, will be in touch, but please do pray, the people here are in such a bondage to ritual and tradition and laws and it is so very hard and sad and hard and sad....