amos the churchmouse: amos heads for the mountains

amos the churchmouse:

a view from under the pew

Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes.

amos heads for the mountains

i ve been to the mountaintop

boss and the air is thin cool

and clear

i ve just returned from a

mousey christian writer s

conference

and inspiration is spilling

over my cup

my problem boss is that i

can t seem to catch any

of it

the speakers spoke

brilliantly

words gleamed in all their

connotative glory

and mousey writers poised

on the edges of their

cushioned thimbles

with pen in paw

it was awesome boss

i almost learned something

but i caught myself in time

we were inspired and

motivated

our spirits re-fired and

resuscitated

but mostly we enjoyed

the coffee cheese and

doughnuts the best boss

probably the high point

though was the keynote

speaker who was a wise

old mousey writer with

long gray whiskers

you ll never do great

things for god until you

experience the power of

his transforming glory

in your life says he

it won t happen until you

encounter the risen glorified

lord jesus

then he cited the experience

of john wesley mouse first on

aldersgate street and then at

fetterslane when he and others

experienced an outpouring of

the holy spirit during their

worship and prayer time

he also talked about moody

mouse - that great evangelist -

and his praying for the

empowering of the holy spirit

after the great chicago fire

moody mouse said later that

quotes here boss god revealed

himself to me and i had such

an experience of his love

that i had to ask him to stay

his hand unquote

the scripture passage that the

wise old mouse used was jesus

transfiguration described in luke

nine verses twenty-seven to

forty-three

when jesus was transfigured

before his disciples said the

wise old mouse he revealed

himself to them as he really was

then the wise old

gray-whiskered fella

looked intently into our

young bright eyes and he said

not only was jesus transformed

by his glory

his glory in us can transform us

as his disciples

as he reveals his glory to us

his glory changes us into his

image his likeness

from glory to glory

the mountaintop experience

is only temporary the old

mouse said

what was the purpose of

the transfiguration he asked

his glory is our power for

service our resource for

rescuing others

you can t build tents towers

or tabernacles on the

mountaintops of our

feelings

but you can scatter his power

by demonstrating his glory

in the valley of groans

he paused a moment

you can t do it empty

without a glimpse of his

glory - without