Today was the third day of our hike on the Jesus Trail. And
let me tell you, it was no picnic. We began by immediately taking a detour
because construction was in our way. We walked for a while and eventually made
it to the first mountain, Horns of Hattin. Surprisingly, it wasn’t too hard to
get up. Well, for those of us who didn’t have five blisters on each foot. We
had a break on the top of the mountain and then started trekking down. We realized
that going up was actually a piece of cake compared to going down. It took a
lot of physical strength to stop yourself from falling down. When we got to the
bottom, we had to keep going down to make it to the road. After about a half
hour we made it to lunch at a Druze Shrine. Unfortunately, we were not allowed
to go into it. Why? We still aren’t quite sure. But we were able to have lunch
underneath a tree and tend to our feet.
At this point, a couple of us decided we weren’t able to
hike the last 10 km with the numerous blisters on our feet. So Allan took them
through a shortcut while the rest of us did the last 10 km. The majority of it
was a pathway through an olive tree farm, but as we kept walking we noticed
that the mountain around us kept getting taller and taller. And what is that
old saying? What goes up must come down? Soooo.. we were already down so we had
to go up somehow to get the our guest house. After making our way through a
herd of cows ( Seth and Caleb went bravely ahead of us in case they decided to
charge), and across numerous streams, we got to the beginning of the mountain.
There was no way we could have avoided that, so we just started going up. We
stopped halfway up to take a few pictures of the gorgeous view, and then we did
that last half. After swallowing our last drops of water, we finally made it to
the top in our sweat drenched clothes. 10 minutes later, we got to our guest
house. It was a wonderful surprise to walk into an air conditioned living room
and a pool out back.
Once supper was done ( which was delicious by the way), we
had our daily devotional and just chilled in the living room. Everyone is too
tired to do anything else. Tomorrow is the last day of the Jesus Trail. Tune in
tomorrow for how we ended this part of our journey with God J
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