  Wow,  what a gi- normous day. nbsp;  The morning had a rough start with a verbal dual with Julie ( our first and probably our last)  over subleasing my room.  I won't go into it further because I don't want to relive those strong feelings now that they have finally faded. nbsp;
 I tried hard to concentrate on the sermon and worship service today,  but I was mostly preoccupied with what I'm going to do with Aviv's living situation.
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 All in all,  it worked out well and everyone's happy- except I'm back where I started and out $ 445 for August.  I spent most of the afternoon showing Aviv around the VMTH,  Davis,  taking him around to run errands,
 and going back and forth to his new place.
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 I don't regret spending a lot of time helping him out because I could only hope that someone would do the same for me if I were in a foreign country.  It was fun talking about our culture and language differences.
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 We even got on the topic of religious differences with him being from Israel and all.
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 Not only has this tiny country of 5 million people ( just a fraction of the size of California)
 been the stage for thousands of years&
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of Christian history,  it also continues to make immense ripples in today's current events.
nbsp;  Wow,
 I really should pay more attention to what's going on in the Middle East.  I was surprised to learn that there is a substantial population of Muslims living in Israel.
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 How could anyone NOT be a Christian in the Holy Land?
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 Aviv is " not religious"
 yet he literally lives just off the Sea of Galilee.  How cool would that be to walk literally in the footsteps of Christ- to sit where He may have sat and to see the same landscape?
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 Israel may be called the Holy Land,  but&
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guess there is nothing&
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holy about the land itself afterall because it does not move everyone who visits to be holy ( Aviv,  for example)
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 I guess that goes to show that your environment alone does not influence your belief.
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 It's silly to think that yet I somehow thought that people in Israel were automatically Christians or Jewish just because they are surrounded by so much Biblical history.
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 I'm at DGD's house now.
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 I'm really sleepy now so I'll write more about that tomorrow.
