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Jerusalem

10/15/2017

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I am sitting in my hotel which is five minutes from the Garden Tomb and close to the Damascus Gate of the Old City.

This morning, I entered that gate to the call to prayer, a beautiful and glorious sound that swept over all of us in the Muslim quarter of the city.  I wandered into a patisserie owned by an young man and sat down to a marvelous pistachio pastry and a copy of coffee that would put most coffee in North America to shame.  And experienced exquisite Arab hospitality and kindness.

And then I wandered:  Jew, Christian, Muslim blend and flow in a beautiful cacophony of  color and sound and the life of these narrow, ancient streets fills my heart with great joy.

I feel at home here, and was made to feel that way by all I met.
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