My lover and I spent most of yesterday gathering firewood, cutting, splitting, and stacking readying for the coming “arctic blast” the weather app keeps predicting. I am reading Horace Kephart’s, Camping and Woodcraft. Mr. Kephart was a failed father and librarian who came to the Appalachian Mountains in 1904 to start a new life and eventually helped to win part of them as our beloved Smoky Mountain NP. His writing describes how mountains can provide all one needs to sustain one’s life. I am encouraged by the many times Christ went up into the mountains for the same reason. He, like Mr. Kephart, my lover and I know they can also sustain one's faith and spirit. We turned to our own mountain to keep us warm for the next several days and are now serving me warmth as I read another text, a Living and Active telling of God, Christ, and the Holy Spirt, The Three who conceived of and made mountains, wood, and fire.
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