Walking the Bible: Palestine - Israel - Egypt - Jordan - Nubia - Ethiopia ( 🇮🇱🇪🇭🇪🇹)

 

By Dutchess @deldeyoch

I gave myself the gift of pilgrimage — walking through Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia. As an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian, it felt like returning to the beginning of my spirit. It was my offering of gratitude to the ancestors who stood with me through seasons of loss, silence, and solitude.

I’ve walked alone since childhood. I’ve buried siblings, parents, friends. I’ve loved men who admired the surface the career, the beauty, the home, the discipline but couldn’t honor the vision. Through every rise and fall, it was me and God. Aligned. Led. Protected.

Walking the Bible was my way home. A way to shed everything that wasn’t love. I traveled solo and quietly, but felt woven into the land, the people, and the stories older than memory.

Now I sit in my father’s garden as bulldozers tear through Addis Yeka, St. Michael, even my father’s house built with his sweat and stubborn hope. I play 432Hz and 111Hz frequencies to stay anchored while everything collapses. And I surrender. I release the rope. I let God move what I can’t carry anymore.

Choosing God Over Expectation

In my 30s, many men wanted to build a life with me. They saw stability, beauty, success, a future. But I wasn’t searching for marriage. I was searching for direction. I needed to know where God wanted me — not as a wife, not as a mother, but as a servant of purpose.

So I fasted. I prayed. I walked.
And from that alignment, Deldeyoch was born not a brand, but a calling.

A vision rooted in authenticity, sustainability, sovereignty, and spiritual responsibility.

Walking Through Sacred Lands

Bethlehem & Jerusalem

I cried at the Church of the Nativity.
I walked the cobblestones of Jerusalem, touched the stone inside the Holy Sepulchre, and stood in the Upper Room a space that holds the memory of the Last Supper. History breathed around me.

Haifa & Palestine

In Haifa, the Mediterranean felt ancient and familiar.
In Palestine, I moved through grief  checkpoints, silence, resilience. The land wept, and I wept with it.

Jordan & Sinai

I was baptized in the River Jordan.
I climbed Mount Sinai by night.
I crossed the Suez Canal, reflecting on the spiritual and political ties between Egypt’s waters and our Nile that begins in Ethiopia.

The Red Sea & Ancient Trade Routes

I stood at the Red Sea, imagining exodus.
And I traced the maritime trade routes that once linked Ethiopia, Egypt, Palestine, and Jordan long before colonization — routes of dignity and exchange.

This is the heartbeat of Deldeyoch:
Trade, not Aid.
Sovereignty, not dependency.
Memory, not erasure.

Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia

In Alexandria, I stood where the Great Library once held the world’s wisdom.
In Luxor, I felt the power of pharaohs.
In Nubia, I sat with people who felt like family.
In Ethiopia, I prayed inside Lake Tana’s monasteries and walked in Lalibela’s rock-hewn miracles.

Everywhere I went, I was watched, questioned, searched a young Ethiopian woman traveling alone with her own SUV, driver, and guide. But I kept walking. Because my spirit was leading, not fear.

Grief, Return, and Rebirth

When I returned to the Pacific Northwest, I was not the same woman who left. I felt clean. New. Grounded in a way that only pilgrimage can create.

Soon after, God opened a door:
I was headhunted to return to Ethiopia and help build an international bank the first official project under Deldeyoch.

I packed my home, said goodbye, and flew back with clarity, passion, and purpose. The work was meaningful and exhausting. I navigated broken systems, carried light into heavy rooms, and learned the art of diplomacy in real time.

This has always been my path to die and rise again, again, and again.

Legacy: The Feminine Divine

Marriage and motherhood are sacred. But they weren’t my assignment.
My path has been witnessing grief, healing wounds, and serving communities through purpose.

I’ve worked across 30+ projects.
Traveled to over 30 countries.
Mentored youth.
Served Africa under three regimes.
Built, advised, created, carried, and aligned.

Deldeyoch isn’t a brand. It’s my offering. My legacy. The work of my spirit, not my ego.

When this house falls, none of the earthly things leave with me.
What remains is my spirit, my prayers, my dogs, my connection to nature the moon, the stars, the sacred.

We are living through a global shift.
Ancient civilizations Syria, Egypt, Armenia, Persia, Ethiopia are under spiritual, physical, and energetic pressure.
New worlds are rising out of rubble.

Through it all, I stay rooted in responsibility, in purpose, and in God.

I walk with the ancients.
I walk with love.
I walk with truth.
And that above everything is what remains.

By Dutchess @deldeyoch