A quaking Quaker trying to live adventurously!
TAKING ROADS LESS TRAVELLED AND RARELY SEEN!
BBC News - Bethlehem's shepherds a dying breed
BBC story to the radio article….. alas my wonderful experiences with sheep and goats in the South Hebron Hills do not make me qualified to be a shepherd in Bethlehem….
The shepherds have been an important part of the birth of Jesus story, but this BBC piece shows how difficult it is to be a shepherd near Bethlehem these days.
It is only a 4 minute interview.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9667000/9667737.stm
If Carlos the 74 year old father or Jamil his young 20 year old son, needs any help keeping the tradition going….part of me would want to go to Bethlehem and help look after the sheep.
I was out several days with the shepherds in the South Hebron Hills, I know it is a hard life, and would be too much for me.
Life in the city…. or being out with the shepherds, a tough choice especially in this rain. Here are a few photo’s whilst we were out with the shepherds and their sheep & goats (thanks Bob).
Alas experience has shown, it is not always as idyllic here as it looks, as can be seen by the press release below…e.g. on the 1st January 2011, a military Jeep followed us and waited at the Ma’on chicken barns for several minutes to make sure the shepherds couldn’t graze the fertile land up there (too late we had already been up there).
Although the shepherds and my team mate Joe ran, I thought why!! We are doing nothing wrong, it was only later that they had so much negative experience it was safer to run.
Who and why!
Just a blog about a bloke living a life that our creator decided was meant for him, regardless of his own initial personal thoughts on whether he ACTUALLY wanted this adventurous life in the first place!!!
However over time I realised if we are to live authentically as God wants us to, then we need to let go of our fears, have faith and live adventurously in the spirit.
My mum tells me she felt I was meant to be a Christopher Daniel (Christ bearer - God is my Judge) ... it "only" took us both until my 39 year on this planet to realise what she meant. Good job our loving creator is patient eh!
Now that I know this is what I am called to do, it does make life just a little easier. At least I don't need to worry about career choices in the near future!
This is a story about being a tiny incy-wincy cog in our creators great plan. So fasten your seat belts in the back there, and let us begin our journey together, some of those rarely travelled back roads are very bumpy and violent!
A couple of favourites
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What Is Empire? Part 1
After launching “Shake...
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Josh Garrels
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Members of a Muslim sect that translated parts...
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How to Be Alone
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“Kinder und Narren sagen die Wahrheit.”
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