Today was supposed to be Demolition day #2. We would tear out the drywall in the kitchen. When we arrived, Jason looked pretty concerned because the tenant who lives in the upper floor of the building was there clearing out a lot of the junk she had accumulated. He explained to us that in Israel, ownership of property is a big issue because prior to Israel becoming a nation, anyone and everyone just built on whatever land they wanted. During the war of 1948, some people fled, others came and took possession of property, and still others came and purchased property. Needless to say, this caused, and is still causing a lot of tension between neighbors and people who claim the rights to buildings and land. The lady who lives in the upper floor should not be living there, according to Jason. According to her, though, Jason and his organization shouldn't be using the facility because it all belongs to her. To avoid any confrontation we left the site. Jason took us to one of the malls so that we could pick up some groceries, and then brought us back to the apartment. Tonight, he will be picking us up to go have pizza at his house with his family!
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We have the rest of the day free until Jason picks us up, so it gave us time to do some reading, blogging, journaling, playing the guitar and watching the Office online haha.
One quick note: we asked Jason what his favorite passage in scripture was, and he said it was the recounting of creation in John. Neither Jordan or I had ever heard of this so he explained to us the literary style of John and how John is paralleling the entire creation narrative in his gospel: setting Christ up to be the second Adam. He described it in so much detail though! I will have to ask him for an outline of what he explained.
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