God is good even when your not paying attention.
Started the morning off with a great breakfast except for the bright neon juices like the kiwi juice was green like grass. Our selection for breakfast consisted of of course cheese, olives, and tomatoes. But we had a variety of pastries, sausage, eggs, yogurt, and cereal. I tell you though the cappucino's are amazing. Enough of that talk.
For pictures please check out my facebook.
Today we started out at the world famous spice market. This was the place to buy eztravagant teas and spices like saphran. The teas smelled awesome. There were meats, cheeses, baklava, Turkish delights, and lots of pottery and fabrics. We unloaded the bus in the middle of the hippodrome (the civic center of Roman Constantinople). Chariots raced around this U-shaped stadium on wicker baskets with wheels of course with 2-8 or more horses pulling at high speeds. On this walk we entered a famous mosque called the blue mosque. This of course was my first time to enter a "live" mosque. We had to take our shoes off in respects to the people not their God. It was quite beautiful. We observed their prayer time. We saw a few boys dressed in elaborate dress in preparation for their entry into manhood as they awaited their circumcision. Ouch! We left the blue mosque and headed across the street to enter the haggia sophia (divine wisdom). So stunning after being rebuilt because of the earthquakes in the ninth and tenth centuries became a model for Christian churches in Greece and Italy. After lunch of chicken, rice, and meatballs we left to head for the church of Chora. This church was built in the fourth century with awesome tile art and fresca paintings which were covered over in time but was ordered to be unmasked in the eleventh century. The pictures were nothing I have ever seen and can't be described, but the description is lots if gold tiles and amazing precision of placement which took six months for a piece that was six feet tall and three feet wide. Again pictures to come later view on facebook now though.
We have now flown 45minutes north to Izmir(Smyrna) where we are staying the night and at 7:30 am tomorrow will start heading to the seven churches of revelation.
Oh I mentioned good God is, here is what he revealed to me this morning. Paul is reminding (this is May 19th of our journey) Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:11-14, "There will be times when you will have to say no; you will want to say yes, and everybody around you wants you to say yes. There will be times when it will be embarassing to admit you are a Christian, but remember Jesus. He set the good example; he was 'the faithful witness' (Revelation 1:5) to the truth."
What are your thoughts here how does this speak to you? Comment and let me know. This spoke volumes to me today and quite fitting for this to be from Paul to a Timothy (someone called to do service for Him).
Goodnight for now, I was happy to talk to Becca and Dean, Maddox was sleeping probably safer that way. Oh how much I love my family.
LZ
For pictures please check out my facebook.
Today we started out at the world famous spice market. This was the place to buy eztravagant teas and spices like saphran. The teas smelled awesome. There were meats, cheeses, baklava, Turkish delights, and lots of pottery and fabrics. We unloaded the bus in the middle of the hippodrome (the civic center of Roman Constantinople). Chariots raced around this U-shaped stadium on wicker baskets with wheels of course with 2-8 or more horses pulling at high speeds. On this walk we entered a famous mosque called the blue mosque. This of course was my first time to enter a "live" mosque. We had to take our shoes off in respects to the people not their God. It was quite beautiful. We observed their prayer time. We saw a few boys dressed in elaborate dress in preparation for their entry into manhood as they awaited their circumcision. Ouch! We left the blue mosque and headed across the street to enter the haggia sophia (divine wisdom). So stunning after being rebuilt because of the earthquakes in the ninth and tenth centuries became a model for Christian churches in Greece and Italy. After lunch of chicken, rice, and meatballs we left to head for the church of Chora. This church was built in the fourth century with awesome tile art and fresca paintings which were covered over in time but was ordered to be unmasked in the eleventh century. The pictures were nothing I have ever seen and can't be described, but the description is lots if gold tiles and amazing precision of placement which took six months for a piece that was six feet tall and three feet wide. Again pictures to come later view on facebook now though.
We have now flown 45minutes north to Izmir(Smyrna) where we are staying the night and at 7:30 am tomorrow will start heading to the seven churches of revelation.
Oh I mentioned good God is, here is what he revealed to me this morning. Paul is reminding (this is May 19th of our journey) Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:11-14, "There will be times when you will have to say no; you will want to say yes, and everybody around you wants you to say yes. There will be times when it will be embarassing to admit you are a Christian, but remember Jesus. He set the good example; he was 'the faithful witness' (Revelation 1:5) to the truth."
What are your thoughts here how does this speak to you? Comment and let me know. This spoke volumes to me today and quite fitting for this to be from Paul to a Timothy (someone called to do service for Him).
Goodnight for now, I was happy to talk to Becca and Dean, Maddox was sleeping probably safer that way. Oh how much I love my family.
LZ
posted by Elzy at
3:39 PM
2 Comments:
it sounds like an amzing thing to experience..i hope a get a chance to experiecne something close to that in my lifetime :) ...I'm taking in everything your learning and trying to learn from it to :) ..I'm praying for you & your family every day ( I hope your feet aren't bothering you that much)
luv u
Early on my life I said yes alot to things I should have said no to. Now as I am older for about the last 18 years I am strong enough to finally say no. It is harder to be a Chritian than to not be. And yes I do let people know I am. Love Mom.If your feet are hurting soak them in hot water and rub them. We Love you. I talked to Rebecca earlier.
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