The Beauty of Dichotomy

We stood on the roof of a house in the area of town called Mohandas (literally translated as The Engineers), overlooking the city of Aqaba. This city is beautiful at night, and as we looked at the faint mountain ridge line behind the city scape, the full moon began to light up the backside of the mountain as it was moments from rising into the night sky. It blows my mind, that this is the country and place that the Israelites trekked through so many years ago and now we stand in this same barren land, over looking a small metropolis. As we looked out from the roof, we could see the "christmas lights" used to decorate wedding locations, a large illuminated picture of King Abdullah II on the hillside, and the mosque towers that rise above the rest of the city buildings. At night, the towers of the mosque are lit with green lights, standing in stark contrast from the night sky. As we stood, we noticed the ridge line of the mountains that acted as the backdrop of the nearby mosque. While an ordinance declares that the tower of the mosque must be the highest point of a building in a city, the mountains dwarf the tower. While regulations declare that no point be built higher than the mosque, no one can control creation and it stands superior to any man made creation. The skies declare His glory!

As we spoke words, the moon crested the mountain line, casting light upon the city. It was a glorious spectacle, the moon casting light onto a dark and barren city. Miss you all.