BIO PRI

Appointment in Jerusalem

Plot

This is the story of three years in the life of a most remarkable woman, who also happens to be my wife. They are the years that took her from a life of physical comfort and professional fulfillment to one of danger, poverty, and estrangement from everything and everyone she held dear. A schoolteacher at the top of her profession, she left her native Denmark -- that clean and lawful land -- to travel alone and penniless to a primitive and violent place. The place was Jerusalem; the time, the opening battle of the long war between Jew and Arab that is still going on. There Lydia endured the rigors of hunger and thirst, the dangers of street fighting and siege. And there she discovered what all of us seek and so few find: joy, peace, perfect security -- no matter what the external condition of our lives. Moving out into the realm of spiritual exploration a generation ahead of her time, Lydia became a pioneer of the charismatic movement which has since been recognized by many as the most positive and hopeful factor in today's world. - Preface.