Words of a Mountain..

Words of a Mountain.. of Grace.. of Wisdom.. Of GOD!

When I first painted "those" words on an ornament this week for a gift..I didn't reflect so much on where I came upon the first part-words of a mountain- actually from a book I am reading about a spiritual pilgrimage. No I rather went into another room and opened the Bible and started to meditate there in. As I thought about that concept of a Mountain top visitation I suddenly started to have revealed to me not one but several mentions of those visits to mountains. Most of us may think of Moses going up into them and speaking with God when he came down with those commandments. Yet quite a few times Jesus is written about going up into them to meditate. Is it something about the heights? Is it that we feel so much closer to God there? Probably that and the fact that we can get away and view the world from up on high and feel removed from it all. We can get away from the rat race as we now call it and gain some separation in our thoughts.

Words from the Mountain then? The Word was from God and the word is God. God being Love I've heard. The word then comes from on high as from a mountain.

What is it about the words, the folk wisdom, and the traditions that come from the people that grow up near those mountains? Is it the plain speaking and honesty and forthrightness? Is it their words of a common appreciation of family, of their beliefs, values and wisdom gained through generation after generation. Words of appreciation of what is important about family and these other things and sharing with each other and giving and showing that love from on high?

What is it that I think of these things again like last Christmas Eve with new and old friends at a family gathering like last year enjoying and maybe convinced in proving for all time that it IS ALL ABOUT LOVE AND NOT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE! These are MY words from a mountain...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, GOD BLESS AND GOOD NIGHT TO ALL!