Wednesday, 25 April 2018

Final Day...Shepherds

Today was the final day of our pilgrimage together as tomorrow morning (at 6AM) we leave our hotel for Ben Gurion airport and begin our journeys home.

We spent today in Bethlehem — and what an amazing day we’ve had!

First we headed to the Shepherds fields and sang a carol overlooking the plain surrounding Bethlehem.  Having travelled through the checkpoint and past the wall separating Israel from Palestine, it was deeply moving tossing from It Came Upon The Midnight Clear “yet neath the angel strains have rolled 2000 years of wrong...”




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