Israel, unlike the fine state of Texas has only two seasons: wet and dry. At the moment they are in the dry season, or to put it more truthfully, a drought. Even though it had rained the day before, it hadn't been a heavy rain.
I woke up sometime around 3:30 in the morning. I was accustomed to the time, but I will still wake up for no reason, so I got up, went to the restroom, and when I came back in, Haley was awake saying it sounded like it was raining outside. I crossed the room to the glass door that let out on our tiny balcony and was completely surprised. It was a downpour! Lightening flashed and thunder rumbled; I opened the door and stepped onto the balcony (the balcony from the floor above me kept me dry).
The fresh smell of rain was all around me, I breathed it in as much as possible, trying to savor it and snapped a few photos:
(Tiberias at night)
"Hey, when I checked my phone, it said it was 3:33 AM." Haley said. You see, one of the many things I've learned from Pastor Troy, is that God loves to hide meaning in numbers. For example, the number 1 means unity, 2 means a faithful witness, and 3 means perfect completion. And if you see numbers in triplicate, like 111 or 222, it means it's the perfect completion of what that number means. Pastor Troy often quotes Jeremiah 33:3 whenever mentioning 333:
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."
I'm not going to tell you all the meanings of numbers in this post, only the part one of them played on that early, wet morning (but in case I've peeked your interest enough to start learning more on the meanings of numbers and the role God plays in them, I would suggest reading Troy's book, Numbers That Preach, it's got some good material). God wanted to show us something, and to some, it was just a big city, at night, with rain, thunder and lightening; but to me and Haley, it was a special God moment, bringing our attention to the time and to the miraculous rainfall that Israel so desperately needed.I went back to the window to try and get a picture of one of the lightening flashes before going back to sleep. I wasn't sure what I was expecting to get, in my mind, I imagined taking one of those high quality pictures of a lightening strike, which isn't something you're gonna get when you own an iPhone 5c (don't worry, I upgraded when I got back to the States). But I did get this picture:
(Almost looks like day huh?)
Happy with the pictures I'd taken and the smell of rain still lingering, I got back in bed, snuggling under the covers and peacefully getting a couple more hours of sleep before the long, adventurous day ahead.
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