Saturday

Today was a nice, slow day. I slept late because I closed last night, so I got off work at 1:00am. We had a good time, though! I got up at about 11:00am I think, then had breakfast. Dad and I went to Cingular to check about getting a new phone (since mine has been dropped a few too many times) and since I'm not up for a new contract yet, I'm going to get a Go-Phone and just put my SIM card in it. Who knew you could do that? It will work like nothing ever happened - no fees or anything and it's only about $30. I'm very excited about that!!

Tomorrow is the first day ...sorry, my thoughts were just interrupted. I was going to tell you about the musical I'm in, but there are so much more important things going on. Last night I was on a break and looking at the front page of the NY Times. I almost cried...probably would have if there weren't other people around. I was stunned today in TIME magazine to see a photo of a dead child. How can the photographer even take those photos? I can't even imagine the heartache that is happening in Israel and Lebannon right now. When I read about several children being killed by a missle in Nasareth I was heart broken. I remember walking through those streets two years ago, talking to an Arabic couple who run an orphanidge there. I remember touring the reconstructed "Nasareth Village" and God providing an interpreter for the French couple that was with us. My, how things have changed since then. I can't even imagine a missle landing in the streets in Jesus' home town!!!! Israel is such a special, amazing place and it is getting blown up. Not that this is the first time there has been a war there. It just seems so close to my heart now because I was there...it's almost like another home to me. I think there is something in all of our hearts that longs for the Holy Land and if you haven't discovered it yet, you will some day. Jerusalem is not the same as it was in the days of the Kings of Israel, but it is the same city, in the same location, and we still have the same, unchanging God - Yahweh. In the past few days the one phrase that repeats itself in my mind is the Shema: Hear O Israel, Yahweh is God, Yahweh alone. He will have His way in this conflict, even if we don't understand it. Lord, be with those in trouble now. Your will be done.