Well this is a long overdue post about my latest adventure this past weekend. I and 4 of my friends did the "Jesus Walk." The Jesus Walk is a hike from Nazareth to Capernaum. It is about 37 miles. Our goal was to traverse it over 3 days. It was my first hike ever, and I loved it! Here is what happened in the form of the pictures we took.
First, let me introduce the group. From left to right, it's Jason, me, Lis, Stacy, and Hans. We took this picture when we were in Nazareth. It was the beginning of our adventure!
Now to each person individually. This is Lis' excited look.
This is my excited look as well.
However, we soon walked about a million billion stairs getting out of Nazareth, and I decided that Stacy should give her "exhausted" look. Here it is.
(On a related note, The Bible says that some people didn't trust Jesus because He was from Nazareth, and nobody of importance comes from Nazareth. I decided that it wasn't because nobody important was in Nazareth, but it takes so much work to get out of Nazareth that nobody ever leaves.)
Hans said that something was annoying, and so I told him to give me his annoyed look. He didn't understand what I said, but he looks annoyed that I'm talking to him anyway.
There was a sheep sitting in the back of a truck, and Jason pointed it out, so I told him to give me his "I just saw a sheep" look. He did a fabulous job, I thought.
Here is possibly my favorite photo of the trip. It is a mosque in Nazareth. The clouds were great for pictures that day/night.
We went to Cana the first night, and stopped to sleep in an olive grove, much like this one. This was actually the second night we were there, but it looked basically the same.
While in Cana, we picked up a small bottle of wine and some bread. This was our Sabbath Communion meal. It was a great experience! It was in rememberance, of course, of Jesus turning water into wine. Sabbath meals always consist of lighting candles and thanking God for giving us the sustenance for the day.
This was in the ancient synagogue of Arbel. Lis and Hans climbed the pillars.
This was a picture we took before the cliffs of Arbel. We are about to sorta climb up the cliff and then go down a different way. It was a lot of work, and we wanted a good picture before we did it!
Unfortunately, we didn't have any food for the entire day. It was Sabbath and everything was closed. So we got up to the cliffs and found a Visitors Center open selling snack foods. So the only food several of us had on that day of hiking was cookies and ice cream. At least we had water!
These are the cliffs of Arbel. We climbed down these on nearly empty stomachs, with pain all over our bodies, and ready to enjoy the Sea of Galilee!
Unfortunately, most of us never made it there. Lis had to go and sprain her ankle on the cliff. We had to help her back up, and then Stacy and I went to the hospital and back to Jerusalem with her while Hans and Jason continued onto Capernaum.
We had a good group, and we had a lot of fun.
One of the games we played was picking movies or tv shows and deciding which of us would be which character. We did the Lion King, and decided that Hans was the Father lion and I was little Simba. So we re-enacted the scene where he lifts Simba over the cliff.
That's it for the pictures. It's been a few days and Lis' ankle is very swollen, and the rest of us are also slowly recovering. The highlight was probably Communion with the Cana wine and bread. Every Friday here at school we do Shabbat (Sabbath) meal on Friday night, so it was special to be able to celebrate it even though we weren't going to be there with the rest of our classmates.
As for the rest of life, we have several papers due in the next three weeks, and all of us are behind on them, so the rest of my time here will be very busy. I may not get much time to blog, but I will try. I come back to the States in about a month. It is a sad but good feeling. Jerusalem has become somewhat of a home to me and my friends like family. I thank God for this opportunity.
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