{"id":832,"date":"2015-11-01T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/?p=832"},"modified":"2021-03-15T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:07:13","slug":"quotes-to-ponder-lingering-lessons-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2015\/11\/quotes-to-ponder-lingering-lessons-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes to Ponder&#8211;Lingering Lessons to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_837\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-837\" class=\"wp-image-837 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1457-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Imad\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1457-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1457-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imad<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_845\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1451.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-845\" class=\"wp-image-845 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1451-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lucy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1451-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1451-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucy<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/angela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-image-190 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/angela-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Angela\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/angela-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/angela-1024x560.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angie Saba<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_838\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-838\" class=\"wp-image-838 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1698-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1698-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1698-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_848\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rami-Elhanan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-image-848 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rami-Elhanan-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rami Elhanan\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rami-Elhanan-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rami-Elhanan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rami-Elhanan.jpg 818w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rami Elhanan<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dalia-Eshkenazi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dalia-Eshkenazi-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dalia talks with us\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dalia-Eshkenazi-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Dalia-Eshkenazi.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalia Eshkenazi Landau<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_740\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-image-740 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0046-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Bahour\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0046-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0046-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0046-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0046.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Bahour<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_733\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StGeorges-med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-image-733 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StGeorges-med-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rev. Hosam Naoum\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StGeorges-med-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/StGeorges-med.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Hosam Naoum<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_247\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Zababdeh-Usama.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-image-247 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Zababdeh-Usama-300x144.png\" alt=\"Usama and Abuna Firas\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Zababdeh-Usama-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Zababdeh-Usama.png 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Usama and Abuna Firas<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_841\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2261.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-841\" class=\"wp-image-841 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2261-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Majdi and Usama\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2261-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2261-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Majdi and Usama<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_842\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-image-842 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2512-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Violette Khoury\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2512-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Violette Khoury<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_843\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-843\" class=\"wp-image-843 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2714-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jonathan Cook\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2714-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2714-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonathan Cook<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_95\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/abuna-chacour-in-birim-church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-image-95 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/abuna-chacour-in-birim-church-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Abuna in Bir'im church\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/abuna-chacour-in-birim-church-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/abuna-chacour-in-birim-church-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abuna Elias Chacour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Brenda Mehos, Margot LaPanse, Mary Laird, and Bill Aldrich<\/p>\n<p>As our trip drew to a close many of us pulled Quotable Quotes out of our notes and memory banks to try to capture what we&#8217;d learned and want to share. We took seriously the invitation to &#8220;Come and See, then Go and Tell.&#8221; Here are some of the pieces of wisdom we collected along the way:<\/p>\n<p>From Brenda&#8217;s notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wi&#8217;am\u00a0 &#8211; Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem (Imad Nasser and Lucy Talgieh)\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The older generation saw the wall built, the younger generation only knows the wall&#8221; (I think Imad said this)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We are also victims of the holocaust&#8221; Lucy Talgieh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Diyar Consortium, Lutheran ministries in Bethlehem\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We want to Survive and Thrive&#8221; Angie Saba at Diyar Consortium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Parents&#8217; Circle\/Bereaved Families Forum &#8211;\u00a0Rami Elhanan\n<ul>\n<li>&#8221; We are together in our pain&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This is not our destiny to kill each other&#8230;.\u00a0 It will not stop unless we talk&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The other way leads to\u00a0nowhere&#8221; and<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Power of\u00a0pain is enormous.\u00a0 Use it for light and hope.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You cannot oppress and control\u00a0another&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;both sides don&#8217;t see other as human&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Regarding what can we do? &#8220;Be\u00a0Pro peace against\u00a0injustice&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Open House Early Childhood Center for Arab Preschoolers &#8211; Dalia Landau\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Need empathy for the other&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>St. George&#8217;s Cathedral, Jerusalem &#8211; Rev. Hosam Naoum, Dean of the Cathedral\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Violence breeds violence&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If we are silent we agree with what is going on&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Educate all faiths &#8211; we\u00a0want to stop extremists like a cancer&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We have a goal of reconciliation and love&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Skype with Father Firas Khoury Diab, St. George&#8217;s Melkite Church in Zababdeh\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Build bridges for peace&#8230;Cover the ugly wall with hundreds of bridges&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To defeat the dark we need our youth&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We must destroy the darkness with our light<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Majdi Shella, International Cultural Coordinator and\u00a0Civic Education Trainer Nablus, Palestine\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Holy\u00a0Land is for all&#8221; and &#8220;conflict is unacceptable&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Abuna Elias Chacour, Mar Elias Educational Institutions in Ibillin\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cGreet each other with a smile of hope\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We are paying the bill for what has been done to others&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>regarding Kibbutz&#8217;s surrounded with barb wire&#8230;.\u00a0&#8220;Cannot dream of peace while you fear&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Violette Khoury\u00a0of Nasijona Nazareth Center\n<ul>\n<li>Everything dies except Love&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Journalist Jonathan Cook, accompanying us to the destroyed village of Saffuriya\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be tribal about this\u00a0 &#8211; it&#8217;s a trap.\u00a0 Zionism creates this&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Margot&#8217;s Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hosam\u00a0 Naoum (Dean of St George&#8217;s Cathedral):\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We are entrusted to protect the dignity of every\u00a0person.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We feel that the Christian presence in the Holy\u00a0Land is threatened.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Rami Elhanan from the Parents&#8217; Circle:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;This is not our destiny.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We can break the endless cycle of violence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We bang our heads against the very high wall of hatred,\u00a0but we have an enormous power as our ally.\u00a0 We have the power of\u00a0our pain.\u00a0 Our blood is exactly the same color.\u00a0 Our tears are\u00a0equally bitter.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou cannot oppress, torture, and humiliate a whole\u00a0nation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dalia Landau:\u00a0 &#8220;How can you have empathy if you haven&#8217;t met &#8216;the\u00a0other&#8217;?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sam Bahour:\u00a0 &#8220;They put you in a maze where they define the\u00a0walls.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Abuna Elias Chacour:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;You may ask our students anything except for one\u00a0question:\u00a0 do not ask them what religion they practice.\u00a0 All\u00a0of them are children of God.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You can take our land from us, you can torture and\u00a0kill us, but there is one thing you cannot make us do:\u00a0 you\u00a0cannot make us hate you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Zionists did not merge into the Middle East\u00a0culture.\u00a0 They planted themselves into our land.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Violette Khoury of the Palestinian Embroidery Coop in Nazareth:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We need to stop talking and just start doing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Cook:\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThere are two types of apartheid:\u00a0 the visible\u00a0apartheid (walls, etc.) and the resource apartheid, which is\u00a0designed to insure that only one group gets access to\u00a0critical resources.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Mary&#8217;s notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour (those are only 2 of his 10 official names), of the Aida Camp Al Rowwad Center\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We want to see our children LIVING for the cause we are fighting, not DYING\u00a0for the cause we are fighting.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Angie at Diyar: &#8220;When you are all hiding together from bullets, the bullet cannot tell if you are Muslim, Christian, or\u00a0whatever.&#8221; [&#8220;or whatever&#8221; might not be quite right.]<\/li>\n<li>Bill, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, parenthetically to a questioning member of our group: &#8220;This is not a place\u00a0for skepticism.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rami of Parents Circle:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Wanting to get even is normal, natural, what most people do. We are not animals; we can THINK. Another\u00a0option is to try to understand.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We are not doomed to keep on killing each other. The only thing we can do is talk to each other.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Demand to be pro-peace.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My message as a Jew: &#8216;ruling, oppressing, and humiliating a people is NOT with our religion, and being\u00a0against it is NOT anti-Semitism.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sam Bahour, after detailing the background of the crippling limitation of movement under occupation with his current passport and ID card:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The bulk of the occupation is administrative.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We took [Israel] to the nonviolent world and they did not know what to do&#8230; No one comes for NON-violence, only for violence. But only Israel will win the violence game.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Majdi: Nablus\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;the Holy Land, is not the Holy Land without Christians, Jews, and Muslims. It is the Holy Land for all.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Abuna Chacour pointing out Jewish Israeli neighborhoods surrounded by barbed wire: &#8220;How can the people inside\u00a0dream of peace when they are told their neighbors are so dangerous?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Bill&#8217;s Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A quote from Abuna Chacour that stands out in my mind, and I am remembering it this way:\u00a0\u201cLife is beautiful, and it is beautiful when I can see my dignity in the face of another and call that person my brother.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Final quotable moment of the trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Young female guard with rifle steps onto our bus at last checkpoint before the airport: &#8220;Are you one organic group?&#8221; Joan:\u00a0[stunned pause], &#8220;Yes, we are all one group.&#8221; \u00a0Organic. \u00a0Yes. Yes, we are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brenda Mehos, Margot LaPanse, Mary Laird, and Bill Aldrich As our trip drew to a close many of us pulled Quotable Quotes out of our notes and memory banks to try to capture what we&#8217;d learned and want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/2015\/11\/quotes-to-ponder-lingering-lessons-to-learn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-october-pilgrimage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingstonespilgrimage.org\/lsp-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}