Comments on: What I Learned on the Mountain Pt 2 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/ Worship Leader, Pianist, Producer, Blogger Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frank Lane http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-55157 Frank Lane Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:51:26 +0000 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/?p=1946#comment-55157 I enjoyed reading Both part 1 and 2. Thankfully for me the day I was on Springer it was clear and the view was breathtaking. My wife and I have been traveling the mountains for the past 26 years. We started by spending our honeymoon in a small community called Bat Cave NC and was given a tour to the Cave by the Ranger there at the time. In the early part of this century I began to have severe knee problems which resulted in both knees being totally replaced. Since 2009 we began to make up for lost time and last Christmas section hiked the AT at Fontana Dam NC. Since then we have section hiked the AT every chance we get.Doubt if I will ever get to hike the complete AT but will do a little each time. When I lived in Augusta we were only 3 1/2 hours away, now it is more like 6 hours. On August 31 I celebrated my 56th birthday with a 5.6 mile hike on the Augusta Canal and later a 3 mile hike on the Bartram Trail Thurmond Lake near Clarks Hill Dam. It is wonderful to be able to do what I once did for so many years in my younger days before the knees began to bother me but the greatest part of each journey is the walk with God. I always feel so much closer to God when in the mountains. I think it is the beauty of the leaves in the fall, the cold winter mornings, or the mist in the early morning which gives the area that blue tent. Of course I am fully aware of His Creation anywhere but for me the sounds, smells, and the air of the Smokey's is always calling me. Thank you for posting this and allowing me to get to see a little more of who Fred is. I enjoyed reading Both part 1 and 2. Thankfully for me the day I was on Springer it was clear and the view was breathtaking. My wife and I have been traveling the mountains for the past 26 years. We started by spending our honeymoon in a small community called Bat Cave NC and was given a tour to the Cave by the Ranger there at the time.
In the early part of this century I began to have severe knee problems which resulted in both knees being totally replaced. Since 2009 we began to make up for lost time and last Christmas section hiked the AT at Fontana Dam NC. Since then we have section hiked the AT every chance we get.Doubt if I will ever get to hike the complete AT but will do a little each time.
When I lived in Augusta we were only 3 1/2 hours away, now it is more like 6 hours. On August 31 I celebrated my 56th birthday with a 5.6 mile hike on the Augusta Canal and later a 3 mile hike on the Bartram Trail Thurmond Lake near Clarks Hill Dam.
It is wonderful to be able to do what I once did for so many years in my younger days before the knees began to bother me but the greatest part of each journey is the walk with God. I always feel so much closer to God when in the mountains. I think it is the beauty of the leaves in the fall, the cold winter mornings, or the mist in the early morning which gives the area that blue tent. Of course I am fully aware of His Creation anywhere but for me the sounds, smells, and the air of the Smokey’s is always calling me.
Thank you for posting this and allowing me to get to see a little more of who Fred is.

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]]> By: Tracie http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49697 Tracie Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:05:14 +0000 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/?p=1946#comment-49697 Amazed-Jared Anderson Sing to the King Borne-Not by Sight Center-Charlie Hall Blessed Be Your Name He Loves Us-with the cardboard testimonies How to return there? I have tried by listening to the songs on youtube. Amazed-Jared Anderson
Sing to the King
Borne-Not by Sight
Center-Charlie Hall
Blessed Be Your Name
He Loves Us-with the cardboard testimonies

How to return there? I have tried by listening to the songs on youtube.

]]> By: fmckinnon http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-53859 fmckinnon Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:43:36 +0000 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/?p=1946#comment-53859 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">New blog post: What I Learned on the Mountain Pt 2 http://tinyurl.com/csc4u3</span></span> New blog post: What I Learned on the Mountain Pt 2 http://tinyurl.com/csc4u3

]]> By: RV Cate http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49695 RV Cate Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:26:53 +0000 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/?p=1946#comment-49695 Great stuff Fred- I believe one of my markers would have to be one we use to do alot on Cursillo Ministry retreats, "Weave, Weave,Weave Us Together" and also "Amazing Grace" I cry about every time I sing or play it. How we have been blessed with great music! RV Great stuff Fred- I believe one of my markers would have to be one we use to do alot on Cursillo Ministry retreats, “Weave, Weave,Weave Us Together” and also “Amazing Grace” I cry about every time I sing or play it. How we have been blessed with great music! RV

]]> By: Shannon Lewis http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49693 Shannon Lewis Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:12:04 +0000 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/?p=1946#comment-49693 Oh my, and how could I forget "I surrender All" and "How Great Thou Art"!? Oh my, and how could I forget “I surrender All” and “How Great Thou Art”!?

]]> By: Shannon Lewis http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/09/what-i-learned-on-the-mountain-pt-2/comment-page-1/#comment-49692 Shannon Lewis Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:08:57 +0000 http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/?p=1946#comment-49692 Great blog, Fred. The "markers" I use regularly here in SE GA are: "Amazing Grace" (except I usually use my own arrangement, or Tomlin's), "As I Survey" (using the Tomlin/Redman version), "Be Thou My Vision", or "Come Thou Fount". So many in the south are churched as though that it appears that there is almost no one who isn't familiar with those songs. When leading youth, at least in this area, oddly enough some of the most powerful songs are whatever the GP sang a few years back, like "No One like You" (Crowder), & "My Glorious" (Delirious), for instance. Odd to think that, one day, those songs will be thought of much like we think of those early Vineyard tunes from the late 70s/early 80s! Great blog, Fred. The “markers” I use regularly here in SE GA are:
“Amazing Grace” (except I usually use my own arrangement, or Tomlin’s), “As I Survey” (using the Tomlin/Redman version), “Be Thou My Vision”, or “Come Thou Fount”. So many in the south are churched as though that it appears that there is almost no one who isn’t familiar with those songs. When leading youth, at least in this area, oddly enough some of the most powerful songs are whatever the GP sang a few years back, like “No One like You” (Crowder), & “My Glorious” (Delirious), for instance. Odd to think that, one day, those songs will be thought of much like we think of those early Vineyard tunes from the late 70s/early 80s!

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