I didn't have many pre-convieved notions about what my experience in Jerusalem would be but the the one I definitely had was that I would study and understand the Bible with more depth then I ever had. This notion has definitely been a correct and I have discovered I am am forming a sure testimony of the Bible and all of its teachings. As time has gone on, I have learned to love the Bible and all it entails to the point where I would like to think that it is becoming part of my identity. This being established, over the last couple of days I have realized that it may have become a part of me in ways I never intended.
I started dreaming in biblical times and narrative.
(Jordan River, Jordan side 7.2.15)
Just yesterday as I was a taking a short nap I found myself in a fresco walled room with mosaic floors and discovered that I was the debtor who owed the lord 10,000 talents.
(Selfie with the sheep while being a shepherd at Neot Kedumim 6.15.15)
Bible-studyitis has also infiltrated its way into my everyday speech and was only just discovered. Biblical narrative and comparison has become not just a part of my daily but almost hourly life.
Phrases such as "it looks like Elisha needs to tell somebody to go bathe in the Jordan seven times" and "talk about casting your pearls before swine" have been spewing forth from my very lips.
I feel like I need to go find and press a big red button somewhere that will send a help signal.
(Israel Museum 7.7.15, Horned Rimmed Alter)
"Mayday. Mayday. The simulatee has gone too far in. She is living bible times."
Digging those sheep :)
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