Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. I boarded the plane for the first leg of my trip to Israel. 24 hours later I arrived at my destination, Amman Jordan. We arrived in Tel Aviv and then bussed to Jordan. The bus trip started north out of Tel Aviv. We skirted the West Bank and then headed west through the Jezreel Valley, Megedo and by Mt Hermon. We crossed the river Jordan, switched to a different bus and drove through the Jordan Vally up the Mountains and into Amman.
As we passed through the ‘West Bank” and saw the walls my heart was saddened. Because of fear the walls were bent to keep Palestinians from crossing freely to other Palestinian cities or into the rest of Jerusalem without going through various check points. Should God’s land have walls? I am far from having any helpful advise to solve this conflict, but should God’s land have walls that are build out of fear and suspicion? I pray for those who are imprisoned by the wall, Palestinian and Jew. I pray that compassion and justice can replace fear and pride. I pray that understanding might arise. And I pray that God’s land will be free.
New Hope 
The Walls Will Fall
No wall will fall before its’ time
But fall it must, and by what means
Only Gold knows.
The walls of Jericho echo still to this moment
The Great Wall of China cost a million lives
The Berlin Wall now a museum
And when will the West Bank wall rest
Only God knows