Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent
But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.
A couple of years ago in these pages [it’s behind the paywall], I wrote of an experience back in the 1980’s when I was helping at an archaeological site in the flat, central part of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. I was in the care of two local cousins, Estefan and Heraclio, who worked as diggers at the site.
During a particularly fruitless we…