Thursday, July 19, 2007












On our last morning, we walked along the ramparts wall around the old city and then went to the Garden of Gethsamene. The olive trees in the garden are a actually older than Jesus and would have already been a few 100 years old when he went there to pray. Though Jerusalem can feel too busy and commercial sometimes it is still an amazing city full of fascinating religious and cultural contrasts that somehow manage to underline our universal human qualities.

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