Remember the children

look carefully at this picture, the one above was taken at a bedouin house two years ago, the one below was taen two weeks ago at the same house. can you find this girl? this one is for Cathi Heare.
the one below was also taken two years ago and you can see them above.

the picture above, taken two years ago, the one below two weeeks ago. it was amazing to see how they have grown and to see new faces this time.

the boys are back in town

we are home safely, with minor airport delays. it was a very long day as our wednesday has last some 32 hours. we traveled from 7:30pm tues Israeli time until i arrived at my house at 4:30pm wed texas time, there is an 8 hour difference which means 29 hours traveling. hopefully i will be able to post pics soon from the trip as it was hard to do in the limited time i had to blog. stay tuned for the next few days and i will put some on with explainations. thanks for all the prayers we can't wait to tell our story.

Tben

P.S. yes I still Love Brooke

good bye sweet Israel

Well we are at the air port and made it with only a few snags through customs. they didn't confiscate any of our special items which was very nice of them. we got to visit the temple mount today along with the mount of olives. we walked through the old city and visited gethsemane. today was great but we were so tired, we look like the trip of the living strun about the airport We are boarding soon and then the thirteen hour flight to new york which i will be removed from if we have to watch ps i love you again, or 27 dresses. so if those are the movies i may be detained a few more days. otherwise we will be there in a day and a little more than a half or so i don;t really know because of the time change. any way don't respond because i can't look again until i get home. it is very sad to leave but i look forward to seeing all of you.

Tben

P.S. brooke i love you

the end of days

First things first, happy happy happy happy birthday to Brooke, i love you and that you were born, you look more beautiful today than the day i met you, you are a blessing to me and it is my highest honor to be the husband of such a magnificent bride. honey I love you.
Well the days just keep getting better. Today we visited the temple mount and the southern wall. It is amazing to see it again, we didn’t go up to the western wall but hopefully tomorrow.

Then we went to Hezzekiah’s tunnel, it was colder than I remember, but still so cool. Only G-d could have connected those two tunnels. After that we went somewhere new, it was an amazing experience but heart breaking. We went to the Holocaust Museum. Boaz led this part of our trip giving up Shav’ uot with his family. There was a children’s memorial that had a dark room with four candles in it and mirrors so that there was 1 light for all the million and a half children killed in the Holocaust. They had pictures of some of them, we all wept. I thanked Boaz and all I could think to say was sorry as he had many relatives ed in the holocaust. then we traveled to Bethlehem and to the Herodian. We even got to see Herod's tomb tha was discovered a year ago, not even RVL has been where we went. and today is Shav'uot and the city is bustling. this would have been pentacost for the early christians the day the Spirt came and G-d wrote his word on the people's hearts. it is facinating to see all the peole dressed up for this major feast, coming from all over the world to celebrate in Jerusalem.
Tomorrow is our last day before the great plane ride home i am sad, but excited to see al of you again and share more in person as it is impossible to explain on a blog. it will also be nice to have some rest. I love you all and will pray for you tomorrow at the wall.

Tben

P.S. happy birthday Brooke, I will always Love You

Jerusalem

well we got to Jerusalem to today and i took a group of us up to the old city in search of the Western Wall, we didn't find it but i know its there. It was awesome to walk throught to ancient streets at night thinking that they must have looked very similar in Jesus' day. The people walking around are so facinating to watch, the devotion they have was humbling for many of us, noting that what if we took time every day to go to church to pray, worship, and talk with G-d? we'll i am tired and it seems only a few are reading so i am going to bed, L-rd willing i will write more in the morning. Oh, Mount Carmel and Caesarea by the Sea were fantastic. i will go back and add some pics to earlier blogs. sorry pics won't upload. Lyndesy i got you some more sea shells and stones from the med.

Tben

P.S. Brooke i love you

Good Bye Galilee

the sun is just coming up and we are getting ready to leave galilee. it is hard to believe it is over already, it seems as though we just left the desert. And yet it also seems as if we have been here weeks. you are all in my thoughts and prayers, i can't wait to pray for you before the Western Wall. it is very still this morning and quiet, i will be shocked if people aren't slow getting up after yesterday, it is getting harder and harder for me. i am going to see if i can retrieve the blog somehow from this sight as it was saved but i don't know where. i am too tired it seems to think of what to say so i will just say take great care of my wife and our menagerie. tonight i will be writing from Jerusalem may G-d bless you and shine his face upon you.

Tben

P.S. Brooke i still love you

I retrieved the lost chronicle scroll down the page and you will find it.

awesome day 8!

Today was awesome! we started the day by hiking to the Jordan River. It wasn't much at all like I was expected. It was alot smaller than I've seen in the pictures from Jesus day...at least in the picture Bible. In all seriousness, the experience was amazing. the crisp clean rushing water was unbelieveable. Just to think that I have been soaked in the same river that Jesus was is unreal. The restof the day was aewsome including a visit to the largest Tel in all of Israel...77 LAYERS OF DIFFERENT CIVILIZATIONS! I have learned so much it is amazing!

I hope everything is going well!

CALEB