Titel: Beautiful on the Mountain: When There Was Trouble in Graves Mill, God Sent the Most Unlikely Answer
Verlag: Tyndale House Publishers
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 141438713X
ISBN-13: 9781414387130
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New

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If you enjoyed the classic novel Christy and the bestselling Mitford series, then you’ll love Beautiful on the Mountain, a real-life tale about serving God in unlikely circumstances. In 1977, Jeannie Light left her fine plantation home amid heartbreak and came to Graves Mill, a tiny hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Alone in an utterly new kind of life, Jeannie was determined to find the courage to make a fresh start.

To Jeannie’s surprise, she found herself called upon by her new neighbors to open the old, deteriorated country church, a place that had once united the fractured community of mountain folk. With no training, and no small amount of trepidation, she undertook the task. And as she embarked on an unforeseen series of adventures, from heartbreaking to hilarious, Jeannie would learn more than she ever expected about faith, loving your neighbor, and doing the work that God sets in front of you. Because sometimes, God calls us to go where there is no path . . . and leave a trail.

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Beautiful On The Mountain

When there was trouble in Graves Mill, God sent the most unlikely answer

By Jeannie Light, Bonne Steffen

Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Foreword by David Aikman, ix, 
Introduction, xi, 
Prologue, xiii, 
CHAPTER 1 Headwaters: Rome, July 4, 1976, 1, 
CHAPTER 2 Charles's Proposal, 19, 
CHAPTER 3 An Unexpected Development, 35, 
CHAPTER 4 Saved by a Diaper, 51, 
CHAPTER 5 "They Done Lied t'Me!", 67, 
CHAPTER 6 Dinner with Mama-san, 87, 
CHAPTER 7 Off to Seminary, 103, 
CHAPTER 8 A Death in the Family, 117, 
CHAPTER 9 "He Will Carry the Lambs", 131, 
CHAPTER 10 "A Woman Can't ...", 143, 
CHAPTER 11 Tutored at Truro, 155, 
CHAPTER 12 Where Is Your Treasure?, 165, 
CHAPTER 13 Thunder on the Mountain, 179, 
CHAPTER 14 "Blessed Are You Poor ...", 185, 
CHAPTER 15 "I Want That Chandelier!", 199, 
CHAPTER 16 Growing Together, 215, 
CHAPTER 17 Clearing the Way, 231, 
CHAPTER 18 "O Little Town of Bethlehem", 247, 
Afterword: Miracles Do Happen, 259, 
Acknowledgments, 271, 
Notes, 273, 
About the Author, 279,

CHAPTER 1

HEADWATERS: ROME, JULY 4, 1976

It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because His call is to be in comradeship with Himself for His own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what He is after. OSWALD CHAMBERS

Someone said that obedience is a long walk in the same direction. It is one step at a time, one day at a time. We take wrong turns; we lose our way. There are no maps, but we follow a Voice—the Word—and love propels us onward.

For me, it all began in Rome.

My godparents had advised me to take a trip to Europe in the summer of 1976 because my ten-year marriage into a well-known Midwestern family was in serious trouble. At breakfast several months earlier, my husband, Harvey, had announced that he was very unhappy.

"Perhaps you should see a counselor," I said, feeling helpless.

"Maybe," he replied, looking woebegone.

"I can go and stay with Mama-san for a few days," I suggested, hoping that might help.

Frances Lee Lull, known to all her close friends as Mama-san, had taken me under her wing years before. I was certain she would be a wise counselor and that her kindness would bring some comfort to my fear and hurt.

"Don't do that!" Harvey exclaimed. "Think of the gossip! I don't want rumors on the county grapevine that we're having any trouble!"

"If I am away, you'll have time to think," I replied, pushing my breakfast aside. Food was the last thing I wanted at the moment.

I did pack an overnight case and drove to Springhill, Mama-san's farm, to see her. She took one look at me and showed me to the guest room. Harvey did call a counselor, a man reputed to be the best Charlottesville, Virginia, offered. In a few days he was enrolled in a transactional analysis group. When I told our pastor about the type of counseling my husband was receiving, he wasn't happy. In fact, he told me that being a part of those groups almost always led to divorce. After talking with Pastor Hall, I returned home and shared his warning with Harvey, then asked him to go with me to see our pastor.

He politely refused. He was delighted with the analysis program and was sure it was exactly what he needed.

"What is it?" I wanted to know.

He rubbed his temple. "Families have 'hot potatoes,'" he explained carefully. "These are issues they can't resolve so they pass them on to the next generation. Our marriage is a 'hot potato.'"

I stared at him in shock and disbelief. "Well, can I join that group?" I refrained from observing that it seemed to me that divorce, rather than marriage, might be the "hot potato."

"I need to do this alone," Harvey replied.

I was more than a little afraid of whatever transactional analysis might be and didn't push the issue, but when I told him my plans to move back home from Mama-san's, he was not pleased.

Soon, according to neighborhood gossip, he was involved with a member of the analysis circle, a local girl who also happened to be one of my friends. I knew her well; I trusted my husband's integrity and could not believe there was any substance to the rumors. However, the two were working together on a committee planning the county's celebration for the US Bicentennial, so it was awkward. My godparents thought the trip to Europe would spare me the embarrassment of the occasion, grant me a clearer perspective, and provide my husband space for reflection and a change of heart.

I didn't have any better ideas for what to do about my failing marriage, so I took their advice. And since I'd never visited Italy, I planned to spend two weeks in Rome after visiting old friends in Sweden. The itinerary for the summer also included time at L'Abri (the Christian retreat in Switzerland founded by Francis and Edith Schaeffer), the Salzburg International Arts Festival in Austria, and a few days in Germany with a friend from college days. In all, I would spend just over two months abroad.

* * *

Like most tourists in Italy, I tried to take in as much as possible in a short amount of time. I saw Michelangelo's Piet�, stood transfixed before Raphael's magnificent works, and trekked through the basilicas of St. Peter's and St. John Lateran. I walked and walked the ancient cobbled streets and city squares. Whenever I found a church, I would stop to pray. The most comfortable and comforting places were the small parish churches where no American tourists ever ventured, where elderly local matrons knelt in silence, heads covered with black veils. I was silent too. I had no specific petitions except a heart's cry for peace and direction. Sometimes despite my best efforts, I'd visualize my three-story Southern plantation house sitting behind its clipped boxwood hedges and Mary Helen, my beloved housekeeper and friend, standing in the doorway, smiling broadly.

On the Fourth of July, Pope Paul VI had promised a 1:00 p.m. audience for Americans abroad. The summer sun was almost directly overhead when I joined the motley lot congregated in St. Peter's Square. There were some turned collars and habits here and there scattered in the crowd, but the majority of those gathered were American tourists or businesspeople who happened to be in Rome that day. Most, like me, wore sandals and bright permanent-press shirts. Some held small American flags.

Although I wasn't a Roman Catholic, I had decided to join the faithful. I admired this pope's efforts to reach multitudes professing no religion at all, as well as those adhering to non-Christian faiths. I'd read of his efforts to internationalize the Roman Curia (the governing body of the Catholic church) and of his untiring work for peace. I recalled his visit to the United Nations in New York in 1965—the first papal visit to the Western Hemisphere—and his often-controversial efforts to implement the work of the Second Vatican Council. The truth was, though, that I was alone in the city, homesick, and scared, and I wanted to do something to celebrate the Bicentennial. An audience with the pope seemed the best available choice. At least I'd be with other Americans on this special day.

I arrived early. To my surprise, several hundred people had already gathered. I worked my way through the crowd until I was fairly close to the balcony where the pope was supposed to address us. I...

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