Room With a View

Jerusalem, the Holy Land, the centre of it all, the City on a Hill, the Promise Land, the land of milk & honey, land of historical prophets and kings and our home for the next 11 months.  It feels very surreal.  Tonight as we settled into our apartment the "Call to Prayer" rang out over the city.  Under a full moon as Shabbat was coming to an end the entire city echoed with the eerie sound of the muezzins' song.  It was a moving and deeply spiritual experience, unlike anything we have heard.  It seemed to stop the city in its tracks. Our apartment on French Hill overlooks an Arabic area and Jewish area, and further in the distance the desert with the Mt. of Olives and on a clear day we can see the north end of the Dead Sea.  Guess we won't miss the Okanagan Lake view too much.  We are finally here and everything is 'sababa'.  Shalom friends.