The Bible relates many events which happened on "the mountain". Mount Ararat, Mount Sinai, Mount Carmel, Mount Moriah, Mount Nebo, Mount of Olives, Mount Zion, Sermon on the Mount, Mount of Transfiguration, Mount Calvary and a host of other well known and lesser known mountains. We often seek that "mountaintop experience" when life gets a little hectic and we need to get away on a Retreat, a quiet place nearer to God or just a place to escape and be renewed or refreshed.
The Great Passion Play is a mountaintop experience for many since we are located on Magnetic Mountain outside Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Most of our guests come here to get closer to God, to hear, once more, the familiar story of Jesus' last week of earthly ministry, to use this venue as a mission trip destination to serve God through their labor, or even come to a faith they have never known before. But for the regular.workers and volunteers at TGPP, it is our valley where we do the nuts and bolts tasks of ministry, the mundane tasks of being a servant, the cleaning up of others' messes, doing whatever it takes (my last blog) and coming back tomorrow to do it all again.
Not every mountaintop generates a mountaintop experience and not every valley is in the valley. But we can all be blessed by what we have been called to do, minister to others and be ministered to at the same time. Where we are "elevationally" is not the determining factor for the mountaintop or valley, because no matter where we are, God is always there, too, if we just put Him and His plan ahead of our own.
Blessings come in many forms; the newly arrived animals in our petting zoo, a thank you from a guest we escorted on a Holy Land Tour, a different interpretation of a verse of scripture which causes us to reread, study and meditate on that verse, four newly born birds nesting in a fern we water every evening, a beautiful sunset or a welcome change in the temperature after weeks of heat and high humidity. A matter of perspective - seeing God in everything and knowing it is meant to encourage us to greater trust, belief and faith in Him. As I ended my last blog..........God Is Good.
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