sEa oF gAliLeE…

We arrived at night with some people from the “Sulha” gathering… I didn’t really know where we were, only that we’ve passed Capernaum and Betsaida, and we were at the Sea of Galilee…
Even though we couldn’t see much in the night I kinda suspected that the beach was dirty… the smell was not one of the bests…As I woke up, these were my first pictures of the place…


I got really annoyed and sad… How could people just leave all this trash behind?!! How could people even enjoy the place with so much trash around?!! I was going for a walk to have my time alone with God, and all I could see was trash… I felt that was the kind of worship God wanted me to offer Him that morning… to clean the trash…
Of course I couldn’t clean the whole beach, but I wanted to do as much as I could…later on the day some of the others were collecting trash as well, and the father of one of the Israeli girls who live nearby, came with his car and took some of the trash out of there…


The girl who lives there said that unfortunately it’s everywhere like that, except the private beaches where you have to pay to get in (ridiculous)…
Inside me I was thinking what was that reflecting… maybe a lack of care from people for their own land… maybe a lack of self esteem…maybe a lack of a sense that that is theirs… I don’t know, God was speaking to me different things as I was picking up trash…
We spent the day there with our new friends from the “Sulha”, mostly “rainbow” people… The sea was amazing…well, it’s really a lake ☺…the water was excellent and we had lots of fun in the water…
it was the best place to be with such strong sun… we all tried to walk on the water, but it didn’t really work as well as Peter☺

around 5pm a strong wind started to blow and the lake actually started to look like a sea…there were constant waves coming and going… big fun !!!
We had nice conversations with people there and the most impacting for me was with Asher, when he said that he was really impacted by our group…he said that, as we all came in the first time he felt something different in us…he got impressed by our unity and love… he also said we carried a “light” Spirit, coz he usually feel a lot of “heaviness” in all the spiritual stuff here in Israel… he’s not religious himself, but the whole atmosphere here is …
he also said he was reading the New Testament and that we seamed like the first disciples of Christ… Wow, that was the best compliment we could hear !!!
I told him that was the whole idea of us travelling together… to be more like the early Christians, not religious, keeping the simplicity of being a family ☺, carrying God’s Love to others and serving those we can serve on the way…
In the evening we went to Jerusalem to our friend Ibrahim ☺, we were on the other side of Tiberias and we drove through the river Jordan Valley and entered through Jericho… Maren, Judith and Hanne took a bus coz we couldn’t fit 9 of us in the “miracle” van…