Developing Horizons Magazine (2).pdf April 2014 | Page 28

Austria: Building a Ship

Look to the Hills
“The mountains will bring the prosperity to the people; the hills, the fruit of righteousness.”
(Psalm 72:3)

A place for renewal, a place of rebirth, a place to listen and to hear!

Everywhere we look, the world

to the critical station where His
seems to be moving at a record presence resides over all, a place
speed. Technology provides access where leaders find renewal and
to all the information we need to the young can become the leaders
operate from the time we rise in the of tomorrow. Harvest Hills -- a
morning until the
time we lie down
at night. Social
media sites keep
us current with
everyone’s whats
and whereabouts,
and time seems
to fly past us at
an
accelerated
rate. Where is the
small still voice
we so desperately
need in the warp
and woof of life?

building of the new can occur. As
it is with the soil, the harvest cannot happen until the soul is broken
and prepared for the “greater works
than these” that Christ promised.
Harvest Hills, located in the North
Georgia Mountains,
covers 36 acres
of mountain wood
lands.
Nestled against
the
banks of Carter’s
Lake in Ellijay, it
holds a vision for
young and old alike
to strengthen their
faith, renew theirspirit and be prepared for the final
harvest.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery said,

“If you want to build a ship, don't
drum up people to collect wood and
don't assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea.”

In

my secular job, I spent a
weekend with my colleagues in a
mountain hut with no electricity, no running water, snow falling,
wind howling, toes freezing. There
in the mountains, in a beauty of its
own, my colleagues spoke with passion about their sailing adventures,
about the storms, about the dangers
of losing an anchor and drifting towards shore a Ё