To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven... A time to love and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace…I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, And what is to be has already been; And God requires an account of what is past.Ecclesiastes 3:1, 8, 14-15

This picture is from my balcony, looking across the street at the American Consulate that will become the US Embassy in Jerusalem on 14th May. This is something that we have been praying for, for many years. It is an answer to prayer that causes us to rejoice. I also wonder what kind of turmoil it will bring not just to Jerusalem and Israel but to the whole world. And to my neighborhood as well.