'...this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.'

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Mountain prayers

As someone who loves mountains, though I haven't been to any top for some years, I was pleased to come across the following in Derek Prime's book on Charles Simeon. Simeon and James Haldane climbed one of the more memorable mountains of Scotland - 'when they arrived at the top of Ben Lomond Simeon records "then we went to prayer and dedicated ourselves afresh to God."' Having been recently in North Wales I remember when in the RAF on a Moral Leadership course, early in the morning we went to the top of Conway Mountain for a prayer meeting. Our prayers rose with the sun! (The picture is of Tryfan in North Wales a fortnight ago).