I have loved reading your Turkish updates! My husband was stationed in Izmir for a time, so our family was able to do some wonderful exploring. Your accounts have brought back some lovely memories. It is amazing how much more one appreciates the NT having visited the places mentioned. I was always skeptical about the significance of visit to a physical location might be, but I was happy to be wrong! Turkey holds a special place in our hearts!
One of the things I've loved the most about the pictures from your trip is to soak in the color scheme and the "mineral" experience you share with us. I lived in Jerusalem for a few months many years ago, and the landscape was striking. To think that it's a landscape that spills over to the New Testament locations is fascinating to me, as I now live in a place with luxuriant greens and life teeming everywhere (crawling into rocks, bursting out of logs). I just think of how the metaphors and the imagery that texture the Bible would have been had its authors written from the busy greens of the tropics. "Tropical Psalms" is probably a reading experience we would benefit from.
I have loved reading your Turkish updates! My husband was stationed in Izmir for a time, so our family was able to do some wonderful exploring. Your accounts have brought back some lovely memories. It is amazing how much more one appreciates the NT having visited the places mentioned. I was always skeptical about the significance of visit to a physical location might be, but I was happy to be wrong! Turkey holds a special place in our hearts!
Did you get to Corinth ??
One of the things I've loved the most about the pictures from your trip is to soak in the color scheme and the "mineral" experience you share with us. I lived in Jerusalem for a few months many years ago, and the landscape was striking. To think that it's a landscape that spills over to the New Testament locations is fascinating to me, as I now live in a place with luxuriant greens and life teeming everywhere (crawling into rocks, bursting out of logs). I just think of how the metaphors and the imagery that texture the Bible would have been had its authors written from the busy greens of the tropics. "Tropical Psalms" is probably a reading experience we would benefit from.