Reflections

As we sit here waiting for Billy's discharge papers, I have been reading over all the emails and messages that we have received this week. I wanted to share with you one particular moving message we received. It was actually posted as a comment on one of my earlier posts on this blog. We have some close friends traveling in Europe this week. They sent us a message that said, " Dear Bill and Carrie, we are in Switzerland today. Just wanted you to know that we prayed for you from one of the highest mountain tops today." I choke up everytime I read it. What a powerful vision in so many ways. Mountains are used in God's Word to depict power, strength, and high places. The very fact that mountains are so very high gives a person the sense that being on one is being physically closer to the heavens. I think of the Mount of Transfiguration where Jesus revealed his blinding glory to Peter, James, and John while in the presence of Moses and Elijah. In the middle of Peter, James, and John's "what should we do" moment, God spoke to them from a cloud telling them to LISTEN TO JESUS!! I think about Mount Sinai where God gave Moses the law. I think about Mount Moriah where God appeared to David and David's son, Solomon later built the temple of the Lord. God did big things on mountain tops. And so we are very moved and honored that our friends took our needs to our heavenly Father on a high mountain top.