A Desert Surprise

'Ruth from Indiana' backpacks alone for three weeks in Israel discovering the generosity of the people, the beauty of the land, and her self-confidence after a bitter divorce-while God whispers in her ear, renewing her faith. She encounters the beauty and the pain of Israel from the Mount of the Beatitudes on the Sea of Galilee to Yad Vashem, a memorial to six million lost souls...from walking the Via Dolorosa to getting lost in Old Jerusalem's market place. For a few weeks, Ruth is...
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'Ruth from Indiana' backpacks alone for three weeks in Israel discovering the generosity of the people, the beauty of the land, and her self-confidence after a bitter divorce-while God whispers in her ear, renewing her faith. She encounters the beauty and the pain of Israel from the Mount of the Beatitudes on the Sea of Galilee to Yad Vashem, a memorial to six million lost souls...from walking the Via Dolorosa to getting lost in Old Jerusalem's market place. For a few weeks, Ruth is like a Bedouin woman, walking where there are no markers, learning to trust her own inner compass. She had seen the world through the eyes of a Marc Chagall. She had been in the presence of courage and faith as Hasidics davened at the Wall. And she had ridden a camel. God was with her. Now she was going home-to dance!