One Life, For His Glory, By His Grace.: Of Salt and Pepper..

The difference when you are in a 5 star hotel is that you loads of choices of cereals, or other stuff for breakfast.

Enough said, here's my simple breakfast from a rather obedient chinese patient recovering from chicken pox. =P

Travelling away from the Dead Sea, we stopped at one of the salt basin. This photo can't reflect what we saw. But when we got out of the bus, the ground were literally glittering with salt crystals if you simply stand still and look. So people were "plucking" crystals from the ground, or trying to break them off from a bigger piece like the one below.

Genesis 19: 15-17

With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished. When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!

Genesis 19: 23, 26

By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Does that look like a female figure? The tour guides would say that she's the rumoured Lot's wife.

Luke 17:30-33

"It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. Remember Lot's wife! Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

When you become a Christian, there will be no turning back. Will you look back? Would you trust Him?

At Zin National Park.

This desert, canyons and valleys are where Moses and the people walked in the wilderness for 40 years.

Guess what we saw? Red Pepper from Pepper Tree!

The different colours of the sand of the desert! (And the fading pox! Like what uncle Andrew said, I just got prettier by the day again! =P )

Lunch! (I chose potato balls rather than french fries)

Ibexs roaming around. We've seen many of them the past few days along this deserty areas. This is the most up close and personal one.

Apparently I missed the photos of the time we visited a duplicate tabernacle which Moses and his people made at that time. I was amazed at how smart the people were to make everything fall in place, setting up and dismantling the tabernacle as they travelled in the 40 years.