Editor's Note: This story is a reaction to the recent article "Journey to the Holy Land"

Two years ago this past July my immediate family took a trip to Israel, the fulfillment of the proverbial “lifelong dream,” the culmination of many lofty aspirations—and my reaction too was one of open-mouthed wonderment. To go back to where so much began, to personally take in the scenes and stories of the faith, to embrace the sacred and secular in a compacted space of land; it was to be a pilgrimage of faith.