{"id":1294,"date":"2017-05-21T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T20:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:41:58","slug":"sunday-in-the-park-with-usama-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2017\/05\/sunday-in-the-park-with-usama-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday in the Park with Usama (and family)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday was simply a lovely day, a break from the intensity of the past week, and a chance to renew and refresh. We got to have a leisurely morning before attending worship at Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem where we were warmly welcomed as “frequent visitors.”<\/p>\n

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Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem<\/p><\/div>\n

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Christmas Lutheran Church<\/p><\/div>\n

A quick return to the hotel to\u00a0change clothes, and we headed to Qumran for lunch and to explore\u00a0Qumran, the place where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, 1900-ish years after they were stashed in clay pots for safekeeping by the Essene Community.<\/p>\n

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Qumran, amazing day with Jordan easy to see in the distance<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cave 4 at Qumran, where some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last act of the afternoon was swimming (well, floating) in the Dead Sea. Everyone who swam loved it, and the ones who didn’t took photos.<\/p>\n

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Pat<\/p><\/div>\n

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Elizabeth, Jasmine, and Alycia model at the Dead Sea mud spa.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Charlie<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sam and Elizabeth<\/p><\/div>\n

We closed the day with a stop at Wadi Qelt where we imagined ourselves into the Good Samaritan story (read for us by Alycia) and enjoyed the desert views, gale-force winds notwithstanding. Usama’s family joined us for the whole afternoon, and it was great to spend it with them.<\/p>\n

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Alycia<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wadi Qelt — our group in the gale!<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s sad to think of leaving our Bethlehem home tomorrow. We have loved the kindness and hospitality of everyone in our Holy Land Hotel home.<\/p>\n

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