The truth is, there is more than enough to go around. And I’ve learned that as I live from this knowingness, from this awareness that God has created an abundance within this universe, and that he has placed within each of us the creative ability to tap into that abundance.

There we were, standing on one of the peaks of the Golan Heights, the territory of northern Israel bordering Lebanon and Syria. To say there is an eerie feel to the land would be a vast understatement. As we drove in jeeps on dirt roads, deeply rutted and lined by barbed wire fences warning of the minefields right beyond, I looked around and just took it in.

The energy...Tenuous. Paranoid. Fragile...