Life presents us with strange turns and twists….which we especially notice at points of re-entry from an adventure. We find ourselves one minute gazing over the Sea of Galilee to the mountains of Jordan and the next minute the flight supervisor of El Al who had been so nice on your departure is there to welcome you back to the UK. I have gone in just a few hours from dancing on a boat in the Sea of Galilee to receiving a spa treatment from two of my girls in my home in Wokingham. It almost feels like living in a Salvador Dali painting. Things just seem like melting clocks sometimes.
I guess one lesson I am learning at the moment is not to let living in the ordinary times rob me of the extraordinary experiences that life brings us. We have so many blessings in our lives but often we are robbed of the chance to truly enjoy them because someone takes our eyes away from the glory and tells us how bad things can be.
I get really frustrated with people who spend so much energy on things that really don’t matter. They are inconsequential things, but some people get tied up in them. Rather than risk being set free to live an abundant life, they spend an eternity struggling with little things.
Driving back to the airport from Tiberius to the Israeli coast, I noticed one car doing what so many do every day. He cut through the traffic and made dangerous moves around our bus trying to move ahead. Three or four times he almost caused accidents, but each time the red light would 
come, all of us would creep up to the light and look at this silly driver. Around the fourth light, his aggressive position in the traffic caused him to be blocked in, and thus all the cars he had carved up whilst driving like a 
fool passed him. Five miles of ridiculous driving and aggression ended up wasting gas/petrol, almost causing a wreck, and ultimately led to nothing. How often this is in life as we struggle to get ahead and to carve up relationships with people who might be in our way. How often the steady pace of the world catches up to us and passes us by.
So, from a guy who should know, slow down and enjoy life. Learn how important family are and how wonderful being a husband and father can truly be. Leave the rat race to the rats, and sit back and the view.
There is a song that keeps resonating in my heart as I am back from my “view”. It is a song by a clergyman and it is a prayer for peace in Jerusalem. I first heard him sing this at the Greenbelt festival when he performed with a group of dancers from Palestine. Perhaps you could sing this…and in doing so, pray for peace in Jerusalem….I will see if I can find it and post it to my blog….in the meantime, just say the words!
