Sea of Galilee

From Anna-Lee
Hello all our blog followers,
Today we had a very chaotic day. We did most of our shopping and we also did lots of touristy sights, which means lots of people. 
Today we went to the Mount of Beatitudes and discussing the sermon on the mount!! We also went on a boat ride on the sea of Galilee. It was very peaceful and quiet. Then we went to see the Galilee boat, the boat that they found in the bottom of the sea! It was amazing to see that type of boat. The type of boat that Jesus would have used. Then we went to the Decapolis to see where Jesus rebuked the demon and put them into pigs then He sent the pigs off a cliff into the sea! 
I now have some animals to add to the list. 
#1. A lizard, I don`t know what type but there were lots of lizards today.
#2. Peacocks. We saw 2 of them in our hotel area. 
#3. Conies.  they are little ground hog like things.with no tails.

This is the coney. We saw four of them. They are mentioned in the Bible.

Thank you all for you your prayers,
Anna-Lee

This was at the Mount of Beatitudes. It is a designated holy site, so we had to make sure our shoulders and knees were covered.

This is the boat we rode on across the sea of Galilee.

This is the back of the Galilee boat that they found. It is amazing how well it is saved!

From Linda
Today there was so much Scripture and teaching and it was so amazing. The kind of teaching that makes you rethink and go 'Wow I never thought of that!" All in a very good way.

And sometimes I would also think of things that pertained to yesterday or the day before. 
Things like I now understand just a tiny bit better Jesus being sent out into the wilderness after His baptism, and can imagine where it was, how hot it was how thirsty and hungry and eager to just go home He must have been. The temptations He overcame just became more significant for me.

Things like discussing Hebrew Parallelism with the Beatitudes and the Jairus' daughter and the woman with the issue of blood who started out an unclean outcast and ended up a "daughter." Wow.

Scripture is opening up to me in new ways because of the teaching and just being here, and seeing how they build their units of houses - insulas.
Then discussing the Scripture "in My Father's house there are many rooms and I go to prepare a place for you.  That\s paraphrased. Anyway, what does it mean when you are right here looking at the housing. It become obvious as we look down at the home, that He is saying you are going to be one of  my family.

Things like seeing the old Galilean boat, and talking about the Scripture about the storm on the Sea when Jesus was asleep. They woke Him up saying - "wake up, we're going to die, don't you care? 
Well, it also says Jesus was in the stern. I never asked myself why that mattered, but that is where the steering mechanism is. So, they were not asking Him wake up and calm the storm. They were with very understandable irritation saying wake up and get steering the boat. The waves are making us go sideways and we are going to capsize and die!
 Jesus rebuked them saying "you of little faith" not because they should have known He was God, but because they said "Don't You care?"
Have we ever asked God that? 
I have.

The Sea of Galilee, which can quickly blow in a storm due to its location in the Rift Valley.

So much. So rich. A good day.