I love to explore and was made for adventure! This weekend, our sweet friend, Ariel (lioness of God!) came to visit us from Texas. We trampled out on the frozen lake of the Isles and I set my sight on exploring the island. This is no big island, it could be better described as a tree covered hill, but exciting to one with an adventurous spirit nevertheless! We climbed over and under fallen trees, through weeds and thickets and the mess of little trees and bushes beginning to grow. It was funny to me that every direction we walked in, we eventually ended up coming to a path of some sort that had been trampled before us. Places where branches had already been pushed out of the way and the snow had been flattened. Whatever direction we headed in, we always ended back up with this trail. 

As we set out on this adventure to Israel, I am thankful for Holy Spirit's leading, for his peace and joy that lead us. I have been so guilty of trying to plan this out on my own, making my own trail, but it is so HARD, and usually involves a couple u-turns. :)

Pray for us, that as we ask Holy Spirit about our time in Israel, where we will go, who we will stay with, who we should connect with, that he would lead us by his peace and joy. Pray that this month before we go, we would receive direction from heaven, not from the minds of man, but straight from our Father, that the voice of our Shepherd would lead us. That he would give us dreams and visions of people to connect with and places to go. We wait on Him! 

Thanks, friends. We love you!