[Polyxene]

I’m going to Israel (Holy Land trip with a church group) January 18th. I hope things are calm while I am there. FReeper prayers gratefully accepted.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I’m considering doing the same in the fall. I suppose the threat is always there.

[Oscar in Batangas]

It is an AWESOME experience to walk the same paths and see the same horizons as did Jesus all those years ago.

Soak up every whiff of His lingering physical presence while you’re there. It’s been 22 years since my visit, and the memories are only a blink away.

I gathered several little rocks, about the size of eraser heads, instead of souvenirs and put them into labelled plastic baggies at many of the stops. When I got home I gave them out one at a time to friends in tiny sealable plastic bags. I put a corresponding Bible verse on a little tag and enclosed it with each rocky gift.
They were VERY well received

[hsmomx3]

My sis is going around that time, too, with a church group!