THE MOUNTAINS

Jonean has been hounding me for about a year to write a book or devotional book. I told her 100 times, NO, NO, NO. She kept on and a couple Sundays ago she said, “So, when are you going to start writing the book?” I whirled around in a smartelic way and said, "when God sends me to the mountains to write, I will." Within four days a trip had been arranged for me to go to the mountains. The Lord heard my words and immediately I found out a trip had been scheduled. Here is the update that I wrote after my trip to the mountains.


Just wanted to give each of you an update on what happened yesterday at the mountains. When we arrived I began my studies and doing some basic layouts. About 30 minutes into the project my laptop died. I told Lisa I was going to walk up the hill and see if the area we parked at had an electrical plug in the ladies bathroom or somewhere I could get charged back up. They didn't so I began to walk around outside looking for an outlet and a ranger walked up and asked if he could be of help to me. I told him I was looking for a place to charge my computer and he laughed and said, “Most people come to the mountains to get away from those kinds of things.” I told him I sent 14 kids and 4 adults up the mountain and I stayed to study. I explained I was doing some research because I was writing on the Wells in the Bible. I then asked, “Would there happen to be any wells around this area?” He said, “there are wells all over this place” and began to talk. I grabbed my Pulse Pen and explained to him that as I was taking notes on what he said, he was also being recorded. He said, not a problem because I happen to know quite a bit about these wells, as I am the biologist for this area. OH MY, He was extremely helpful and gave me his name, phone number and e-mail address. He also connected me with the geologist that works there. We were able to gather so much data and get it recorded that it was amazing. The Lord showed us soooooo many wonderful things we can write about. I also began to walk down the river where water had ran for years and years and looked at the rocks. I walked down the trail and was looking at the difference in the rocks and do you know what the Lord showed me. You can take one of the hardest rocks in this area and put it into the river and over a period of time with the WATER running across that rock smoothly or roughly, that rock WILL change shapes. The jagged areas on the rocks become smooth. If we run the living water over someone’s life over and over and over and keep running that living water over their lives, It Will Be Changed.

Ok now this one is totally cool; some of the wells there had quit producing water. We asked the biologist why and he said that there was an earthquake. EVER HAD ONE OF THOSE EARTHQUAKES IN YOUR LIFE that made you stop the living water from flowing as freely or stopped it completely from flowing? I'd call that your earthquake. These are only a few of the things that the Lord showed me.

I have gotten the opportunity to witness to a Buddhist and to the biologist. I've decided to write some things from time to time on this blog, since I don’t have time to write or call everyone. Hopefully this way I can keep you posted.

The guy that does our Children's sermons was gone this morning, You know what topic I did! I have gotten to do this with adults, teenagers and now small children. It seems to fit one age group just as well as it does another. I just condense it down more for the smaller ages.