Gothic Line Part Two -- Day 4

Day 4 Pianosinatico

This day we had set out to do some high mountains even though they were above our 1000 mt. mark, there was the chance that they wouldn’t be covered in snow.  Who knows, maybe we will be driving to the top, there are cities on some of these,  maybe some of these would be like that.  On the way we stopped at Pianosinatico and prayed for grace as well as healing and forgiveness.  There wasn't much to it, just a little town nestled in the hills, charming and small like all the rest, containing a Church, Bar, Store, Butcher shop, Hardware Store, Bakery, Post Office and a few other odds and ends shops.  It was hard to believe that this little town was part of a strategic war strategy but since it was again on a mountain top and had full range view of mountain tops all around,  I guess that made it an idea place to set up camp.  This town like all the others, has a monument.  We haven't tried to focus on monuments or even museums, this war was very intense and even now the Italians are really coming to grips on what happened here and more and more documentation and interest in the history is coming to light.  Each community that

was effected has stories to tell and things they remember but our focus has not been about the history naturally in the sense of war history as much as what happened here spiritually and what doors were opened to the enemy of our souls.  This is what the Lord wants to redeem, the ground, the fiber of the nation to which the people live on.  To release them from unforgiveness, from suffering from the pain and sorrow.  From the hatred that still is there for the German people and those who carried out the Nazi agenda, or the Fascists or the Partisans.  People were effected and although 69 years have passed, this is still a lingering thought.  This is the history we are interested in, how were the people effected, not the museums with war artifacts or tactics used or the ideologies of Hitler.

Our goal is for spiritual freedom to come and a joy and peace to be released, a setting free.  For King Jesus to take His place in each and every community.  That His Spirit of grace & mercy would flow and that as far as the eye can see and every place that our foot touches would become ours and part of the Kingdom of our Lord.  Bathing this land in prayers, tears and sacrifice..  Trust me, it is a sacrifice to climb these mountains, as beautiful as they are, this is not my number 1 idea of fun, but I know it is on the Lords heart.  The scriptures are full of people going up to the mountain, Jesus went up on the mountains, He was transfigured on the mountain, He died on a mountain.  Satan always took the high places and set up alters and God always had them go up to the mountains and pull them down and set up alters.  Since we are now the tabernacle of the Most High, we go up to the high places and pray.  I don't understand it, but the Lord has told us to do it and so we go with great expectations that it is making a difference.  He looks down to see if there is any standing in the gap for the people and we stand up on the mountain and say we are Lord, send us to the Nations, we want them as our inheritance, we want to enlarge the Kingdom, we want the people to be free.

So with all these ideas and thoughts going through our minds, we drive our stake in the ground and took communion.  Across in the distance we could see a whole mountain range, covered in snow of course but with little towns dotting here and there.  From a distance they don’t look so very dangerous but then again we didn’t even know of these were our Mountains or not.   After asking around to some of the locals we headed across the way and found ourselves climbing the mountain in our car along small one lane roads that were at times stuck to the side of the hill.  There wasn't any snow on the roads and not very many people around as this area is mostly abandoned until June-September, when this area will become alive with tourism.  After taking our car up as far as we could go in height, we found a dairy farmer who told us that the road we wanted to take was back down the mountain about 1 km and to the right, but the road was not in great condition because of the snow  and just the day before they had to go and help a couple who got their car stuck in a mud rut.

  They told us June was the best time to climb and that from that point in the road it would be about a 2 or 3 hour walk up to Mount. Tauffi , 1799 mt. & then over to Mount. Spigolina 1827 mt and Mount Lancio at 1540 mt. to finish off the day.  This should be fun.  Well not a bad scouting day.  Back home to regroup for another leg that is not in this area.  11 Mountains that should have been walked out  first, will now end up being walked out last.  It does say He saves the best wine for last, maybe it will apply here as well, as the Holy Spirit flows across this land.

To be continued.....