Gayle

Blessing Of The Animals

2022/10/03 Gayle 0

Perhaps the Blessing of the Animals is the favorite thing I get to do!! Here are my words from Sunday October 2, 2022: Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 Common English Bible I also thought, where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless. All go to the same place: all are from the dust; all return to the dust. Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth? So I perceived that there was nothing better for human beings but to enjoy what The rest of the story

A Christmas Lesson (good all year)

2020/12/14 Gayle 0

So I’m a little bah humbug on Christmas this year. Nothing will be like every other year…we’ll be home at dhachaigh rather than Tobaccoville at mama’s (where I’ve spent every one of my 57 Christmases). I can be curmudgeonery anyway and this year has a millionth dose. Anyway, last Saturday night I got all excited to put up a tree! So we bought a coupon – a $40 tree for $28 – an NC TREE from a local store! Win – Win – Win, right…nope all their $40 trees were ~4ft (who wants to look down on the angel?). So I bah humbuged and grumbled (and grumbled about Christmas, about spent money, about…well, everything – it’s a rabbit hole). During the week we went to The rest of the story

Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Twelve

2020/01/31 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 31, 2020 In a lot of ways we’ve saved the best for last. Going on the archeological dig and spending time digging in the dirt and looking for artifacts was so exciting! And how fun and how amazing to be able to be in Israel, in the place where the Maccabees were. Where history was made. And to be a part of an archeological dig, not just to see it but to actually participate in it. Absolutely phenomenal. After so many days of stuffing my brain and working my body and trying to understand and to hear and to work through the spiritual changes; to be able to play in the dirt was a reversion to childhood. I used to love to The rest of the story

Israel Palestine Day Eleven

2020/01/30 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 30, 2020 I awoke in the morning to the sound of Rami praying. I don’t know what time it was, but it was early. It was before my alarm had gone off and there was the sound of Rami calling his prayer as he started his day, as he and DilNaz left us to head back to the US. There was something very comforting about hearing Rami pray in that place and that time after the night before when we had the opportunity to pray together with Rami and the others . We went to Ako and we were told that we would have some free time and we had the opportunity to just sit and drink coffee which is what I The rest of the story

Israel / Palestine Trip – Day Ten

2020/01/29 Gayle 0

Stardate: January 29, 2020 Visiting with the Ethiopian Kes was very interesting. I have a vague recollection of the air lift that took place in 1985 or was announced in the very beginning of 1985. I was in college and looking towards graduation but I also was a bit of a news junkie at that point in time. I certainly remember the announcement of this airlift to bring all of these Ethiopian Jews to Israel. What I found interesting in the history that we were given when we were visiting, versus the history that I remember is that my memory says that there was a famine in Ethiopia and the reason for the airlift was directly related to the famine however when questioned about The rest of the story