Early Morning in the Pines

Coffee in the cool mountain air

S.E. Fairbanks

This last month, I drove up the mountains to Cascade, Idaho, where I enjoyed being a part of family camp, or camp meeting, as some old-timers still call it. It was a refreshing time of fellowship, worship, and meeting new friends (and reconnecting with some I hadn’t seen for a long time).

Each morning before 7 a.m., I made the short climb t…