Today was a relaxing and yet very informative day. We spend the morning and half of the afternoon at Ein Gedi. This place is famous throughout the Bible but mainly goes along with the writing of David. Many of the Psalms were actually written in the deserts here. We went to a nature reserve and saw all kinds of animals on our hike to the springs. There are many hiking trails throughout Ein Gedi because it is such a large expanse of land. There were many different caves and it was really cool to think that David could have been hiding in one of those exact caves when Saul came in as he was being chased. David and all of his men hid out in the Ein Gedi throughout the periods of time when Saul was chasing David to kill him.
Something that we had to do today was pick a spot somewhere near the springs or on the rocks and write our own Psalm. This was of course an interesting thing to do. All of the Psalms are so different. Some of them are praising God while in others David is telling God how mad he is. We also read the passages of Scripture where David had the opportunity to kill Saul and yet he did not because Saul was God's anointed. Then everyone was allowed to swim in the springs or just sit around and read and stuff. It was a really fun day and everything we saw was so beautiful. Later in the afternoon we had a guest speaker come and talk about cultural perspectives. He taught us a lot about the Israeli and Palestinian perspectives and about their religions. Learning about different cultures is always interesting. Tomorrow we are actually going to take part in an archaeological dig. We will be sifting through materials that have been taken out from under the Temple Mount. It will be an interesting day!
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