Trip to Israel

I said I was going to Israel. It's a trip with a group from church, about 25 people. My wife convinced me to go several months ago when the opportunity first came up, because this year has a couple of significant events already happening: she's turning 50, and we'll celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. We happened to have the money, so she had very little convincing to do, especially since I love to travel. This is probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I'd be a fool not to take it.

But the significance of this trip is beginning to sink in as the time gets closer. Partly because I'm a student of the Bible, and Israel is where most of the Bible was written and where most of the history of the Bible took place. It's the Holy Land. It's where Jesus walked. It's where He was born (Bethlehem), where He lived and did His ministry, and where He was crucified and rose again (Jerusalem, the Holy City). We will walk where He walked, and go to many of the sites where history was made.

Welcome!

Seeing as how this is my first post in my first blog, I thought I'd set the tone for things to come. The first reason I created this thing was to chronicle the preparations for and my actual trip to Israel beginning on May 15, and going through June 2. But that's not the only reason.

"More will be revealed," as I will probably run this as a stream-of-consciousness style of writing.

Because, you see, I have no plan.

Some topics I will most likely cover, in no particular order:

• Photography
• People
• The existence of God, and why you should care
  
• Travel

So stay tuned, stay awake, and I'll try to keep this interesting. (Actually I'll be interested to see if anybody even reads this thing).