Excavations on a Nameless Hill

Today we start our dig on hill across from Et-tell, the ancient mound that should probably be identified with Ai.  Last year during our survey we found this stone structure that looks worthy of further investigation.  Was it an ancient altar?  We hope to find out!

The survey team last summer.

Imagined Love

We can easily imagine, think of, contemplate and be attracted to the idea of giving our whole selves and lives over to God without actually doing it, and think we have done it because we have imagined it.  Our imagination can even become an idol, a substitute.  Dostoyevsky says: “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”  We can think we love God when we are only dreaming about it.  Here is a test whether you really love God.  Have you done or avoided or given up a single thing today solely because you believed that God wanted you to?  (Peter Kreeft and Pascal, Christianity for Modern Pagans – Pascal’s Pensees)