Chandler’s parents, with their words and deeds, are her constant companions as she navigates life. For others, their influence on her - this journey and her life - are striking because their influence is clearly in the actions they took for her and for still others, their influence lies deeply rooted in the history of this place.įrost, Thoreau, Emerson and Longfellow and many others guided Chandler’s thoughts with their words. For some, their words appear at the beginning of every chapter. People, too, as Chandler points out throughout the book, were important on this journey. From two angles, like giant spotlights, the yellow-orange ember glow of the setting sun shone up upon billowing towers of cloud, purple-gray in the shadows at that moment, a barred owl began to call from deep in the forest, the notes finding their way straight into my soul.” “But, no, I turned again, and the sky had exploded in a blaze of apocalyptic color, perhaps beyond the craft of words to capture. History seeps from the banks of the river and climbs tall trees in a wild setting that elicits an emotive response to it all for the reader. Her words illuminate both a time and a place. She transfers to the page those moments her senses are seeing, hearing and touching. Thoreau, reflecting on his three visits to Katahdin, wrote: “The narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.”įor one to travel through unknown territory for the first time is daunting to do so with both determination and a pensive obsession for detail is striking.Ĭhandler’s pen does not disappoint. The place is home to a landscaped fabric of history and natural wonders.
Maine’s Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument spans more than 87,000 acres of mountains and forestland in northern Penobscot County. located in the North Woods of Maine - was only two years old. When Chandler decided to set out on her journey, the newest monument in the U.S. Chandler is a former forester who today, when not out hiking or canoeing, works in special education. That Christmas her father gave her a kayak, cementing that relationship she found on the Allagash. That trip she believed at the time was a “quiet” turning point for her. Marrying in 2005, she spent her honeymoon canoeing the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. If the disciples of Jesus needed to wait for the Holy Spirit to endue them with power, might it not be wise for us to do likewise and receive the Holy Spirit and let Him empower our ministry? Surely, if these disciples, who heard and saw all that Jesus accomplished during the entirety of His earthly life, were commanded to wait, we too should surrender to the leadership of the Holy Spirit.īe careful to whom you listen where the Holy Spirit is concerned.A defunct nonprofit wants to help Washington County plan for its future once againĬhandler arrived in Maine in 2003 with her two children. He also commanded the disciples to wait for the Power of the Holy Spirit that would be given to them at Pentecost, before beginning their ministry to make disciples in all the world, (Matthew 28:19). Jesus Himself is responsible for the Holy Spirit’s presence in our world (John 14:16-17). They, we, are without excuse if we don’t embrace Him, the Scriptures are filled with references to Him and His work. “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”įast forward to today’s Church and we find that there are whole denominations who have little of no understanding of the importance and power of The Holy Spirit. That they were devoted disciples can’t be denied, they simply had not been taught concerning the Holy Spirit. They had no means of knowing about the Holy Spirit, let alone that it was possible to be baptized by Him because of this lack of knowledge, they were missing out on the use of the greatest tool of evangelism and personal growth that God has provided. In defense of those baptized by John, they were not aware of Jesus baptism before Matthew 3:11. John himself said that he only baptized with water, and that there would come One Who would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11).
Further reading tells me that these disciples were baptized by John the Baptist and not by Jesus or His disciples. It seems a strange thing to me that there could be those called disciples who, by their own admission, have not heard of the Holy Spirit. And finding some disciples, he said to them, ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?’ So they said to him, ‘We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.’” - Acts 19:1-2 (NKJV) “A nd it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus.
0 kommentar(er)
