From the monthly archives:

June 2009

The Earthly Love of My Life

21 June 2009

Twenty-nine years ago today I married my best friend and love of my life. I met him at a church function when I was 17 and he was 18. Casual friendship turned into best friends. After 4 years, best friends turned into husband & wife. We had a big church wedding on Saturday, June [...]

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Erev Shabbat

17 June 2009

Last Friday night we had a community erev shabbat meal on the patio outside of the prayer room at Succat Hallel. I and a few of the interns got there early to set up tables and chairs for the meal. Getting the chairs out of the prayer room while a watch was going on was [...]

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Samarian Beauty

11 June 2009

I have a weakness for taking pictures of flowers, especially when I find flowers in unusual places. I think what draws me to them is that they show up when you least expect them. All of a sudden….there’s a flower. A flower? What’s a flower doing there?
Like this beauty in the [...]

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Falafel prep 101

9 June 2009

This came from a great falafel place inside the Old City. Falafel critiquing is an art. You won’t ever find two falafel stands that make them the same way. Kind of like hamburgers. In the States Gary and I enjoy finding independent hamburger joints and critiquing their hamburgers and fries and onion rings. Well, [...]

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Abraham’s Well

8 June 2009

Yesterday we traveled to Be’er Sheva in the Negev desert in order to take part in a worship/intercession meeting related to a court case that is taking place in the city this week. It’s a landmark harassment case involving the believers there and an anti-missionary organization. We are praying that the judge will decide [...]

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I’m homesick….

6 June 2009

This has to be one of the cutest pics in the world. Brand new shoes on the feet of a 5-year-old about to go to her first day of Kindergarten. This was taken last August (‘08) of my oldest grandchild, Ashlyn Rose Watkins.
Here she is ready to walk out the door. Don’t you just [...]

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Serenity at Its Finest

2 June 2009

Last shabbat Gary and I decided to get away for a few hours before our busy week started. Since we had rented a car to pick up Hunter from the airport a couple of days before and couldn’t take it back due to Shavuot (Feast of Pentecost) and Shabbat, we said, “Hey, let’s go to [...]

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