The High Places of the Earth, Part VIII
Once, on our travels through the southern Appalachians, the Wilkes Team and the Staddon Brigade paid a visit to Tennessee’s highest point. Naturally, it is right on the TN/NC border (about 60 miles from Mount Mitchell as the crow flies).
Along the road we saw a Ruffed Grouse, and on the footpath between the parking lot and Clingman’s Dome beautiful Chestnut-sided Warblers were spotted and photographed.
“If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it” (Isaiah 58:13-14).
There is nothing like the view from a mountaintop, Donald! Though they may be farther apart than we would desire, may the long-range visions the Lord gives us at the high points of life keep us close to Him through the valleys and darker times of uncertainty. Persevero!