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I am so beyond excited about my new website! Please make a note of my new blog address.If you are following me on this site, please change your RSS subscription accordingly. I don't want to lose you!Shanah tovah! (Good year! in Hebrew)

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Twenty-six years old...oh my goodness, it seems like just a few minutes ago we were driving to a park in Dallas to get Destiny's bridal pictures made. What a fun time! God had done such a life-changing transformation in our little girl just a year before at Gateways Beyond in Cyprus. She came home a different person, washed clean, set free and in love with Yeshua. She also met the earthly love

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We are back home in Jerusalem after three amazing days on a campground not too far from Tel Aviv with hundreds of young adults and lots of older adults as well. The testimonies are continuing to come in about the impact it made on all the people there. It's hard to describe what God did, but I will try my best to put in words what we experienced.The prophetic significance of what took place

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I know it's been awhile since I've posted anything to this blog, and I feel bad about it. I really do. I like to write, but it's hard when you have other things vying for your time. When I'm stressed on the inside, I don't write as much. I've really sensed an increased warfare here in Jerusalem since Ramadan started last Friday. Ramadan is the first month of the Islamic calendar, and Muslims

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As I was drinking coffee on this beautiful shabbat morning, I heard singing and clapping in the building next to our apartment. On investigating it further I realized that it was the sound of a Jewish shabbat service. It was so refreshing to hear the laughter and sounds of close-knit community coming up from their meeting place. They are serving the same God I am serving and that alone connects

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That's what this post is about, but not necessarily in that order. This week is shaping up to be a hot one here in Jerusalem. Today was 93. Tomorrow and the next day will probably be around 96 or higher. Now I know what you're thinking. 96 degrees? In August? That's not too bad! (I know my Cpyriot friends are laughing right now, because it gets so much hotter in Cyprus & they don't have A/Cs

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I have been having sooo much fun with my two girls and two grandsons that I haven't blogged in over a week. I wanted to share a few sentences and a couple of pics until I could sit down and really write.Last Wednesday we rented a van and struck out on an adventure. We left Jerusalem and drove down by the Dead Sea, past Jericho, En Gedi, and Masada. We drove through the Negev desert all the way

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I don't know how they did it, but my family and a many of my friends kept a secret from me for over a month. Courtney & Judah and Destiny & Shiloh surprised me yesterday by walking in my front door here in Jerusalem! Gary said he had to go get someone from the airport for our friend Steve Carpenter who is in Haifa right now. Actually I don't even know if that was a lie. He might not have left

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"The rest of the events of Hezekiah's reign, along with all his might and how he made the pool and the tunnel and brought water into the city, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings." II Kings 20:20My last post was about my recent trip through Hezekiah's Tunnel with Preston, Rickey Augustus and his friend, Sam. I can't leave you there. I have to let you see what's at the

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Twenty-four years ago today I gave birth to a 8 lb. 7oz. baby boy! At this moment 24 years ago his Dad and I were still in shock, because the sonogram lady 4 months earlier had said that she was 98% sure that he was a she. The nursery was pink and we had nothing for a little boy to wear! We were in shock but we couldn't have been happier! I started screaming when Dr. Fong said, "It's a boy!"

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A few days ago the job fell upon me to take our guests from Dallas, Rickey and Sam, to the City of David and through Hezekiah's tunnel. Now anyone who knows me knows that it is no "job" for me to take someone through the tunnel. It's one of my favorite things ever. The City of David is such a special place. Just being on that hillside where King David lived and set up the the tent for the Ark of

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We have been so so busy lately that I haven't been able to post one word about something really special that happened last week. My youngest son, Preston, turned seventeen on June 28th! Yes, folks. All five of my kids are now 17 and older. Preston's birthday was especially great this year because 9 months ago we almost lost him to a random drive-by shooting in Grand Prairie, TX. He was shot in

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Twenty-nine years ago today I married my best friend and love of my life. I met him at a church function when I was 17 and he was 18. Casual friendship turned into best friends. After 4 years, best friends turned into husband & wife. We had a big church wedding on Saturday, June 21st at 5:00pm. It was a wonderful wedding. It was an anointed wedding. God's presence was there in a special way.

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Last Friday night we had a community erev shabbat meal on the patio outside of the prayer room at Succat Hallel. I and a few of the interns got there early to set up tables and chairs for the meal. Getting the chairs out of the prayer room while a watch was going on was a little tricky, but we did it. After we got things set up, we sat in the staff room and talked for a while. I'm beginning to

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I have a weakness for taking pictures of flowers, especially when I find flowers in unusual places. I think what draws me to them is that they show up when you least expect them. All of a sudden....there's a flower. A flower? What's a flower doing there?Like this beauty in the middle of a thorn patch. They were the only flowers in at least a 15-yard radius at the site of the ancient city of

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This came from a great falafel place inside the Old City. Falafel critiquing is an art. You won't ever find two falafel stands that make them the same way. Kind of like hamburgers. In the States Gary and I enjoy finding independent hamburger joints and critiquing their hamburgers and fries and onion rings. Well, it's the same with falafels. They are as varied as Carters has liver pills. (I don't

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Yesterday we traveled to Be'er Sheva in the Negev desert in order to take part in a worship/intercession meeting related to a court case that is taking place in the city this week. It's a landmark harassment case involving the believers there and an anti-missionary organization. We are praying that the judge will decide in favor of the believers, and that the organization will be held

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This has to be one of the cutest pics in the world. Brand new shoes on the feet of a 5-year-old about to go to her first day of Kindergarten. This was taken last August ('08) of my oldest grandchild, Ashlyn Rose Watkins.Here she is ready to walk out the door. Don't you just want to squeeze her?!Ok...now seriously... this is the best. This was at the end of the day when we went to pick her up.

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Last shabbat Gary and I decided to get away for a few hours before our busy week started. Since we had rented a car to pick up Hunter from the airport a couple of days before and couldn't take it back due to Shavuot (Feast of Pentecost) and Shabbat, we said, "Hey, let's go to the Dead Sea!" The drive was about 1 hour and 15 minutes and was wonderful. We stopped at a public beach across the road

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We are so excited, almost giddy. Hunter arrived today, and he will be with us for at least 3 months. Pres is totally pumped that he's here, because he will have someone else to hang out with besides his dear ole dad and mom. I think I've figured out that the reason we're so lonely is because in Texas we had an open door policy and people were coming and going all the time. We ALWAYS had a bunch

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We were given this amazing opportunity by our next door neighbor to go on a real live archaeological dig. It's the kind of dig that people pay big money for. The last time the team was at this site was nine years ago. It's in the West Bank near Ramallah, so the Intifada made it almost impossible to get an excavation team to volunteer. The Israel Antiquities Authority approved the dig this year.

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I've wanted to start a blog for a while but just haven't had the time to sit down and figure it all out. Now that I am no longer employed, living in another country, and, sadly, no daughters, sons (except for Pres) or grandchildren to spend time with, I find myself with more free time than I've had in a long time. (In a couple of weeks, I'll be dreaming about days when I had nothing to do except

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