Spring has arrived in Israel!

January brought the highest amount of rain since 1948, the year Israel became a nation.

God's mercy is again evident; a seven year drought has been broken.  The land is so reliant on the mercy of God.  The enormous amounts of rain have greened up the hills and valley's; the earth is responding.

The soil is being tilled and readied for planting.  Mish-mish (apricot) and fig trees are blooming, red anemones are happily nodding as the spring breezes flow by.

With 86% of Israel's surface being limestone, there are massive underground lakes that flow into the largest fresh water reservoir, the Sea of Galilee.  It has risen by three meters.

The birds are singing; people are rejoicing!

The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst.  But I the Lord will answer the;  I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.  I will make rivers flow on barren heights; and springs within the valleys.  I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.



Isaiah 41: 17 - 18