Point Park, Lookout Mountain, TN

The picture at the top of this page was taken at Point Park.

This past Sunday afternoon, we decided to go up to Lookout Mountain to see the beautiful colors at Point Park.   

Point Park was completed in 1905 to commemorate 
the "Battle Above the Clouds" 
as part of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park.

Lookout Mountain is also where the Incline Railway is, although we decided to drive up rather than take the rail car.  

It was a beautiful day, with temperatures in the 70's and the sun's warm rays streaming through the trees.  We couldn't have asked for a better day to visit.  

These cannons are the original cannons used during the Civil War and preserved here on Lookout Mountain.

Since I am short on time today, I will just post a few of the beautiful pictures I took and write more and post more on a later date.

 

More to come later!
Be sure to check out the slide show of Point Park 
at the bottom of this page.

The Beauty of Death

Romans 6:23 says: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord."

Just look around you in the fall.  What is it about autumn that everyone loves so much?  It's the beauty in the colors, the smells, the cooler weather.  The beauty that we see all around us is caused by "death".  The leaves are dying and falling off of the trees and even in doing so, they are beautiful.

This is what "death" is like for the Christian, the person that has been "born again", through placing their faith in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Jesus said that those who believe in Him will not see death!  Death is only the separation of our spirit from this body of flesh.   (John 8:51,52)  Just as the leaves die and fall from the tree in a splash of glory, so shall it be when we leave this "body of death" and open our eyes in the presence of our Lord and Savior.

There is "Beauty in death".