We went to the Israeli holocaust museum. Tragic. Words cannot express the sadness felt there.
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| Renee Scott at the US Embassy |
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| Olive wood figures in process |
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Pete and Carol Loveland admire the most expensive
nativity set in the shop - - - $25,000
Wow! It took over a year to make. |
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Fresco in the Church of the announcement
[the angel announces Jesus' birth]
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| Beautiful fountain at the shepherd's field |
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Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
Floor from church built in 325.
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Original Church of the nativity was destroyed by fire.
Rebuilt in 565. Wall mural dates to that time.
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Amazing columns and reliefs of saints on the columns.
Date to 565 ad.
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Below the church of the Nativity is
the grotto [cave] traditional site of
Jesus birth.
Steve Shearer on the way out and up.
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This last picture is from the Holocaust Museum. No pictures are allowed inside. The museum traces the rise of anti-Semitism, the rise of the Nazis and their efforts to exterminate the Jews during WW2.
We should never forget what happened to the Jews during WW2. There were people sitting on benches openly weeping, overcome with grief.
When you leave the museum, you walk up an inclined slope. Your visions is focused on this triangular field of view. In the distance is the current city of Jerusalem. Houses, businesses and cranes working, building a new city. The message being, the past is behind us, let us move upward and outward and focus on our future.
My heart is somber as I write this.
Yet it's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
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I am leading some trips this year and next. If you are interested in reading about them, or joining in, the links are below.....
Paris-Normandy River Cruise
October 23-31, 2019
http://www.eo.travelwithus.com/tours/rc19102319x17768#.W3avNFJK3cs
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