The Land is our Classroom

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.  Our eyes are opened in new ways as we drink in a myriad of new insights.  The classroom pictured here is the synagogue in Capernaum where Jesus would have taught.  Our classrooms have been on bus and boat, in an archaeological dig and ancient church, in an open field of mustard and on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.  The Bible and the newspaper never read the same again once a journey has been taken here.  The pages are no longer flat.

I took the group today to Bethsaida, location of an archaeological dig in which our son, Doug, and I participated in l996.  It is an Iron Age city, visited by King David and thought by some to have been the home of the disciples, Peter, Andrew, Philip, James and John.  There is controversy over that.  Great progress has been made in the excavation in the years since we dug.  Doug and I worked on what has now been labeled "The Fisherman's House".

The group is traveling well and laughing and learning much. Happily, I have discovered a place of good internet connection :) .
Blessings,
Mary Hulst