'...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, Iwas 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).
Born of missionary parents, after National Service in the RAF I trained at London Bible College. I was an assistant pastor at Spring Road Evangelical Church, Southampton, pastor at Bethel Evangelical Free Church, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, and Dunstable Baptist Church, prior to retiring in 2003.