
We will have more firsthand information about the Revelation Ranch when we return. What a blessing to take part in a tribute to Rich Mullins by learning about his Appalachian forefathers at the Genealogy Jamboree while seeding the creativity of another generation by fundrasing for Revelation Ranch Ministries!
In honor of Rich Mullins' vision, A Candle to the Sun, LLC plans to help support the work of Revelation Ranch Ministries through proceeds from books purchased on this website: Singing from Silence* by Pamela Richards and Going Home: A Sojourner's Appalachian Roots** by Beverly Hall Walker. This is an offering made in faith. We don't know yet if we can fund the publication of the next book, Let the Mountains Sing, but we know in whom we have believed, and are persuaded that he is able. We seek your support in prayer.
I'll have limited internet access for a while, so I'll share a song here that keeps going though my mind. It reflects the deep joy this opportunity awakens in me. Richard wrote a different song with the same title, but these are the original lyrics, usually attributed to an anonymous Quaker writer:
How Can I Keep from Singing?
My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth's lamentation,
I hear the sweet, tho' far-off hymn
That hails a new creation;
Thro' all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul--
How can I keep from singing?
What tho' my joys and comforts die?
The Lord my Saviour liveth;
What tho' the darkness gather round?
Songs in the night he giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm
While to that refuge clinging;
Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
I lift my eyes; the cloud grows thin;
I see the blue above it;
And day by day this pathway smooths,
Since first I learned to love it;
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing;
All things are mine since I am his--
How can I keep from singing?~
**Beverly Hall Walker has generously contributed her years of hard work and genealogical research to assist the Revelation Ranch Ministry of Letcher County, Kentucky. She will donate all the profits from her spiral-bound book, Going Home, a Sojourner's Appalachian Roots, to this Letcher County, Kentucky cause. She has only a limited number of books to offer. To purchase her book, visit www.candletothesun.com again in July.