Goodbye Lebanon

Sunday with friends...
We felt part of the community and enjoyed hanging out together a lot. Just being friends, doing friendship stuff (here dunkin donuts is the place to do that). Felt like home...

It took some time until we finally found the perfect picnic place (just felt like being together with jesus freaks...) but that was just part of the process.
Those guys are truly amazing,
they do rock! Love you.

On Monday, our last day another friend took us to the mountains to see some of the few remaining famous "cedars of Lebanon". Cedars grow so high up in the mountains as no other trees are able to grow. Some of them are 2000 years old! They start looking like other needle trees but then they become really massive, hugging would take several people. The bible speaks so much about God revealing himself in the beauty of Lebanon and the cedars are a symbol of that - so sitting under those impressive trees we had to read the song of songs together!

the righteous will flourish like a palm tree
they will grow like a cedar of lebanon
planted in the house of the lord
they will flourish in the courts of our god
they will still bear fruit in old age
they will stay fresh and green
proclaiming the lord is upright
he is my rock and there is no wickedness in him
psalm 92, 12-15

We are glad that we met some of the cedars of lebanon in the people we got to know and new friends we found - makes leaving a sad business... But we know that we are travelling the same road - as well as with our friends back in Germany and elsewhere. Good to travel together***