Captive in Cape Town

Remember 'Sleepless in Seattle'? Well, Roh and I are creating a new epic- 'Captive in Cape Town'. We were due home yesterday after meeting our daughter in Cape Town this last week. But the volcano ash has beaten us and the next guaranteed flight is 13 days later.

Cape Town is a captivating place. We were moved by what we saw on Robben Island, we were charmed by the friendliness of the wine estates and we were excited by the worship of the local Hillsongs congregation.

But now we are captive against our will.

I remember being stuck in a hurricane in Orlando, and lost without a visa in Hong Kong, but being captive in Cape Town is entirely new!

Songs in the Key of Life

I decided I wanted to listen to the band ‘Mountain’ (if you have never heard their track ‘Nantucket Sleighride’, where have you been?!) so typed the word ‘mountain’ into my ITunes. And of course it came up with all sorts of songs about mountains. Seems appropriate to list them on a web site all about climbing the mountains of life. So here we go, some well known and some reflecting my eclectic (strange?) taste…

Misty Mountain Hop – Led Zeppelin
King of the Mountain – Kate Bush
Rocky Mountain High – John Denver
Rocky Mountain Way – Joe Walsh
Prayer of the Mountain – Iona
The Brain of the Purple Mountain – Leo Kottke [This gets the prize for the strangest title]
Visionary Mountains – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
The Mist Covered Mountains – Mark Knopfler
When the Mountains Fall – Mark Schultz
Lead us up the Mountain – Matt Redman
River Deep, Mountain High – Tina Turner
Mountain of Things – Tracy Chapman
Mountain Tops – 2nd Chapter of Acts
Wild Mountain Honey – Steve Miller Band
Black Mountain – Nick Drake
Sugar Mountain – Neil Young
There is a Mountain – Donovan
Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble? – Delirious
There are Mountains Before Me – Dave Bilbrough
Mountain Mover – Bryn Haworth
Brave Mountaineers – Gordon Lightfoot

So there we are. The RIVER may be DEEP and the MOUNTAIN HIGH, it may be ROCKY , we may FALL and TREMBLE; there may be MOUNTAINS OF THINGS in our lives, and MOUNTAINS BEFORE ME but THERE IS A MOUNTAIN that is worth us being BRAVE MOUNTAINEERS for. He will LEAD US UP THE MOUNTAIN, with VISION through the MIST, out of the WILD, BLACK WAY, and as sweet as SUGAR and HONEY, with a PRAYER on our lips, deliver us with a HOP skip and a jump to the MOUNTAIN TOP, beside our KING OF THE MOUNTAINS and MOUNTAIN MOVER.

Well it was fun trying to fit in all the titles…. Couldn’t fit in ‘BRAIN OF THE PURPLE MOUNTAIN’ though, no matter how hard I tried!