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Beautiful on the Mountain: An Inspiring True Story
Copyright 2014 by Jeannie Light. All rights reserved.
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This work is a memoir based upon the authors best recollection. Some of the dialogue has been recreated and some peoples names have been changed to protect their identities.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Light, Jeannie.
Beautiful on the mountain : an inspiring true story / Jeannie Light.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4143-8713-0 (sc)
1. Light, Jeannie. 2. Christian biography Virginia. I. Title.
BR1725.L437A3 2014
277.55'082092 dc23
[B] 2013049839
ISBN 978-1-4143-9596-8 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-4143-8718-5 (Kindle); ISBN 978-1-4143-9597-5 (Apple)
Build: 2014-05-09 08:17:15
For Elizabeth Baucum
How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of the messenger who brings good news,
the good news of peace and salvation,
the news that the God of Israel reigns!
I SAIAH 52:7, NLT
W HAT HAPPENS when a young woman finds herself thrown into a rural Virginia community and then is asked to reopen for them a long-disused local church? With only a few college classes in biblical subjects for preparation, Jeannie Light tells a tale of her years organizing Bible studies and worship, visiting hospitals and planning celebrations in a beautiful but remote corner of rural Virginia. As you read her stories, you learn along with her to care for and love a flock as diverse as the original Twelve. Youll be introduced to a cast of characters few novelists would have the creativity to describe as well, or as lovingly, as Jeannie does.
There are some very profound lessons in this tale. The most important is that when God throws you into the unknown, He can be trusted to guide you through the unforeseen and provide the grace for you to emerge from it a stronger Christian than when you went in. Jeannie had no idea what she was taking on when the good citizens of the hamlet of Graves Mill asked her to do church for them. Almost every day brought a surprise or a challenge for which the only thing she could do was lean on God with a desperate Please help me prayer.
The second lesson from the book is that preaching the Gospel in a community of ordinary people must be incarnated by living the Gospel. To her own surprise, Jeannie discovered that opening the Bible among a group of strangers had the effect of opening up a new community: a community of people who laughed, joked, wept, and helped each other out in a sort of mini Kingdom of Heaven. The characters in this book are as funny, flawed, and tragic as any of us. Yet in Jeannies story, the love of God enfolds them all, revealing how the body of Christ is supposed to function in everyday situations.
Jeannie and I served together as lay Eucharistic ministers in a dynamic church in northern Virginia for a few years in the 1990s. For at least part of this time, Jeannie was still living in the rural community and making the two-hour drive to church every week. I am ashamed to say that I did not know her very well at the time and had no idea what she was doing.
During more recent years of getting to know Jeannie well, I think I have discovered what being a true saint is like. It doesnt have much to do with ecclesiastical clothing, but it has a lot to do with pickup trucks, horse manure, crying children, weeping mothers, guffawing uncles, and ordinary people from every sector of life you could think of. It has a lot to do with praying for grace and wisdom, and with listening to people tell their unique stories. Youll laugh often as you read Beautiful on the Mountain, and youll also weep with joy as you watch the way God works. Enjoy.
David Aikman
D ECEMBER 2013
A FTER FORTY YEARS of living, how many of us find ourselves where we expected to be when we were twenty? Did Abraham, growing up in the cosmopolitan city of Ur, expect to become a nomadic herdsman? Did Peter and Andrew have so much as a premonition that Jesus would call them from their fishing nets to wander the worlds dusty roads? For most of us, life does not unfold according to our plans, but the Scriptures record promises that if we walk with God, He will supply our needs and there will always be enough bread for the day. Sometimes theres even butter on it. Beautiful on the Mountain is the record of Gods faithfulness and provision for an unexpected journey in the wilderness.
In 1977 I came to Graves Mill, a tiny hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. As part of a divorce settlement, I owned a seven-hundred-acre tract of mountain land that was, as the locals said, so poor a rabbit needed to pack a sack lunch to get through it. The parcel, once part of a mountain plantation, was a combination of rocky cliffs, wooded slopes, and about 125 acres of pasture. I was quite sure that the Lord had called me to raise sheep there, but over time I would come to realize that I had miscounted the legs.
In 1969, almost eight years before I took up residence in the mountains, the Baptist circuit closed the little church in Graves Mill. The simple building stood empty and silent during those years, but the local residents never stopped dreaming of the day when it would once again reverberate with songs and sermons and shouts of Amen! Preach it, brother! I never dreamed that the little church would come to life, nor that Id be included in the cast of characters in a tale of loggers, poachers, and the last of the mountain people, those who remembered life in the hollows before automobiles and telephones. However, living among them, I learned to care about the poor as people rather than anonymous recipients of my charitable donations. I was forced to learn to live in a community with less much less than in my previous life, and to learn that in Gods economy, less is more when He guides the accounting. I confess that I fought the lessons every step of the way.
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