To try to live our lives not based on volumes of religious law but on a boldness for life. Looking forward to what God will yet do. The view from Masada, across the Dead Sea, is amazing, breathtaking, and inspiring. But that whole area will probably one day be destroyed by the sudden shift of the earth s crust. Two mighty plates grind together below the surface there.
Earthquakes are frequent, and massive.
Some day, the Israeli mountains may slam into the Jordanian hills. Everything in between, all signs of yesterday would be obliterated. The view of the Sea of Galilee is spectacular from the Golan Heights. Yet the fields and plains in between are completely saturated with land mines. The faith of my father s ancestors, the old hardworking Presbyterian farmers and pioneers is not something I want to forget.