Tomorrow I fly to Israel to teach a three-week seminary program. I’ve prepared a couple of posts that will go up later this week, but I don’t expect to have much time to post much else of substance while I’m traveling.
If you forget and check in here and see nothing new, perhaps that will prompt you to pray for me. I’ve been fighting something with cold-like symptoms for the last three weeks, and generally feel crummy every day. Many cold-type symptoms don’t go well with long days of teaching outdoors.
I’d also appreciate your prayers for my rusty brain. I’ve been living in a different universe for the last several years and I’m just not sure how much of the stratigraphy of Hazor I can recall. A friend on the phone today mentioned “Emmaus,” and I thought, “oh, yeah, there’s a problem with Emmaus.” It’s been a while. You might admonish me to prepare, but alas, most of the time for that has passed. But you can pray that I will not be too harried in the evenings and will have time to review and recover.
You can also pray for our family. There are challenges that exist even when I am around, but some of those are increased when I am away. In case you don’t remember, our children’s names are Luke, Mark, Bethany, and Katie. I posted a recent photo a few days ago.
Todah rabah.
Christmas morning in Plano, Texas
I’ll be praying for you, my friend. It will probably be like riding a bike … even though you haven’t done it in a while, you’ll pick it right up without any problem.
BTW, if you need any information on a particular site, you can always check out the notes in the PowerPoint presentations of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands. The guy that wrote those notes really knew what he was talking about. ;-)