RUN FOR THE HILLS

For the Lord is a great God,

And the great King above all the Gods.

In His hands are deep places of the earth.

The heights of the hills are also His.

Psalm 95 - 3-4

Some nights she skims around like a demented bat.   Her mind, not unlike her computer refusing to exit a particular screen, sleep eludes her.   Press Control and Esc and that doesn't work either so perhaps a piece of toast and a cup of sweet tea will sometimes does the trick.   Finally she crashes snatching a three hour Thatcher nap and touches the land of dreams.

There is a song called "The folks who live on the Hill" written by Jerome Kerne and Oscar Hammerstein 11.  It's a romantic picture for the energetic or those in the first flush of youth but the convoy of mobility scooters parked outside a local church signals the demographics of those who just can't climb every mountain.

Steps to the summit remain the hardest but then "Geronimo" the view stretches as far as the eye can see, yes you will be the first to see the advancing "alien tripods"* striding towards the villages but there would be slim pickings there.

And more positively - the advantages.

1.     Not so far to go to get to the pearly gates.

2.     The air is sweet.

3.     Water runs downhill.

4.     Wind power a great possibility.

5.     A cloud watchers paradise.

6.     If your humble abode faces east you are gazing in the right direction for the return of THE King.

As the Titans clash and the cities of the nations go up in smoke the hill dweller will pray the winds will skip and sweep all the rubbish away.

Like Christian in Pilgrims Progress we will all push on to our final destination and climb that final summit to reach the City of Gold.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills

From whence comes my help.

Psalm 121

*  War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells