Jerusalem and Bethlehem may be the only destinations you visited on you journey around the World that steer some jealousy into my heart. I hope to be there one day! Thank you for the fabulous description of all the places. Your observations from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and “the Status Quo”, brought to me the scene described in the Gospel, when Jesus demanded that the House of God be the house of prayer. And two millennia later, just like then, it is easier in our lives to follow the Status Quo then to reflect on the bigger picture or pray together. Somehow we prefer to be small.

You both remain in our thoughts every day.
love, Dad S.