Angels on Jelico (actually Jellico) was experienced and told by yours truley. Last week I had the oppertunity to go back there again. This time it was in the daylight and on dry roads, it wasn't near as scarey. I dont know what the elevation is at the top, but the mountain keeps on going up for some 17 miles. At the top there were a few places where the view to the bottom seemed endless. Houses in the valley, if you could see them at all through the fog were mere specks. It was almost like being in an airplane looking at the ground from 25000 feet. Jellico Mountian is on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, a real place, one I dont want to find myself at on another snowy night.
I've been seeing humps in the floor, sometimes so bad that I would get down on the floor to feel it there. It never was there!!!!! So, off I went to the eye dr. and told him my troubles and how these glasses have given me fits ever since I've had them. He was really stumped for a while and finally came up with the deduction that when these glasses were made some of the bifocul was cut off the bottom thus distorting my vision and giving me headaches. So.. I had to lay down $275.00 for exam and new glasses, good thing I had an income tax refund to fall back on or I would have been highstepping over humps in the floor for a while. Those things ought not to cost so much.
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Well, I'll just have to go back and read that one again since I know you wrote it! I thought you found it some where.
I remember a mountian like that, could be the same one. When we went to North Carolina a few years back. We took the back roads all the way and ended up following a dump truck all the way up this mountian on a two lane road with a high wall on one side and a drop off on the other. It was sooooo high that I felt like I was higher then the birds. I do remember looking out and seeing the eagles or buzzards or something big soaring on the updrafts way below us. It was beautiful! But it was in the middle of the day in the summertime too, a big difference.
You know you could write a book about your experiences. That was a good piece you wrote. I'm so glad you have your four 'big guys' with you on these trips. We don't always know when they have protected us from something,so it is good to know they are there!
Now, you've done it again. I went back and reread your Jellico Mountain, and there are tears dripping off my face.
Its intent was not to make anyone cry but to think about the times when we should tell the mountain how big our God is instead of telling God how big our mountain is. I'm like you Sharon I think if we knew about all the times "our guys" took care of us unbeknowns to us we would probably be scared to a litteral death.
Ruth it is on interstate 75 a devided 4 lane highway, but I'm sure there are other secondary roads just like it over the same mountain. I've heard it said if a trucker makes it over Jellico Mountain in the winter they are a truck driver extraordinar.
Those pieces dont come often but when they do I have to write them down.
Yes, I shall reread YOUR piece about Jellico Mt. again. I've only read it about 6 times already, and tears still flow, to know our God is that Big and cares that much for us. Right now I can't see the keys to type. I thought maybe you wrote it but I didn't know you were that GOOD, of a writer I mean.I though if someone else wrote it, it sure was appropriate for your situation.
I coppied it and wanted to read it at church during testimony time, back when we had snow, but I know I couldn't get through it without breaking down. One night it would have been good to have with me but I forgot it. Someone else was commenting on Gods protection on the day of that snow that you wrote about. Would have been perfect. I'm glad you wrote it, makes it even better. Thanks for letting us know, I only ask you three times who wrote it. I'd have kept asking till you told us. Glad you made it back down the Mt. I've been over that mountain several times but not in the snow, God forbid. It's beautiful at the top, just no pull off to stop and enjoy the view, too many concrete barriers to keep folks from dropping off the edge.
Umm... Jellico mountain is actually along I-75 on the border of TN and KY. Not near NC at all...
Lisa (in Jellico)
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