This is Vivi, our House Matron. Actually Vivi has been like a "den mother" for all of us during our sabbatical. She is warm and welcoming and manages to think of everything. If you want to know something.... ask Vivi. She tells a wonderful love story about travelling from her home in Denmark to Israel at the age of eighteen, meeting and falling in love with the tour bus driver, a Palestinian, whom she married six months later. Sadly, he died of cancer three years ago. A more generous-hearted person I have not met.
Sabbatical In Israel
January through April 2006 I was on sabbatical in Israel. I was based in Jerusalem at Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies (www.come.to/tantur). This blog was initiated as a way for the inspiring members of my congregation to experience something of my "sacred time away."
Friday, April 07, 2006
This is Vivi, our House Matron. Actually Vivi has been like a "den mother" for all of us during our sabbatical. She is warm and welcoming and manages to think of everything. If you want to know something.... ask Vivi. She tells a wonderful love story about travelling from her home in Denmark to Israel at the age of eighteen, meeting and falling in love with the tour bus driver, a Palestinian, whom she married six months later. Sadly, he died of cancer three years ago. A more generous-hearted person I have not met.
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