Journeys To Jerusalem

The Rev. Daphne Grimes, an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Wyoming, has had a long history of increasing exposure to North Africa and the Middle East, living for seven years in the 1960's in Tunisia and Libya, and traveling widely through Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Trips to Israel began in 1956. After a hiatus of many years during her life with her geophysicist husband in the Arab world, she returned again to the Holy Land in the early 1980's, as she was preparing for the priesthood. The spiritual, emotional and experiential depth of her many visits since then, as prospects of peace seemed ever-more-fleeting, inspired her to use her journals to tell a story not often heard in the United States, in the hopes that true justice for all peoples concerned might be seen as essential for peace to ever prevail. Peace in Jerusalem could become a symbol for a hurting world.
Daphne Grimes is a poet and artist. Her two published books of poems are Journeys in the Spirit and Journeys in Time and Space.