James H .Eblen's Page

Thank you so much Sir!

It's always inspiring to me to hear of such interventions and guidance. I believe in them as I've had one in my own life. As a man in my twenties, I skied at a very high level, such that in high school our ski team was the New England Prep School champs the year I was on the team. Later, I would instruct at ski schools during vacations and etc. One day I was skiing at Cannon Mtn. in New Hampshire with my younger brother, a member of the University of Colorado ski team. We were on a ski trail cut specifically for a Downhill race (won by Jean-Claude Killy) several years following that race. We decided to "tuck" the whole trail. That is, go into a crouch, poles under arms and take the entire length of it straight at speeds of 70-80+ mph. At those speeds we necessarily had to stay to the very edge of the trail as the trail had not been groomed for such speeds as they normally are in a Downhill Race. Skiers taking a more leisurely, more normal ride down, make a lot of turns to check their speed and the steeper the trail, the more they do so. As they do this, they create large bumps in the trail called "moguls". This is a very steep trail with a lot of moguls. One simply cannot ski at the speeds we were skiing in moguls. So I was following my brother down the trail when I caught an edge on my left ski. That leg went up level with my left shoulder and I'm looking at maple trees ten feet away passing me at 80 mph as I'm off-balance on one ski. I remember thinking "I'm dead". Then it felt as if a large hand was placed on that leg and that hand pushed it back down onto the surface of the snow. Done. No more drama. As if it never happened. I felt totally calm, albeit somewhat breathless, and finished the run. I think that was God's hand -- or an angel's. I'll never forget it.

I'll be 64 in a few days and agree with you on church. Baptized Episcopalian as a youngster, I don't go church, but I do believe in God and the bible in general. As for our present-day secularism, the communists needed to kill God in order to do what they did and still do in some places. Hoping to do it here too, they worked on making religious people out to be idiots and they started with the young people of my generation. Authoritarian governments of any kind cannot tolerate a higher power. Their deity is power and their liturgy is utterly wrong political dogma.

As I see it, we conservatives face a similar difficulty, however. We need to separate the connection to God from the application of our agenda, in order to obtain the political power necessary to insure that we can all worship God as we see fit! It's for the opposite reason that the communists tried to stamp out God.

Sincere thanks for the communication Mr. Eblen.

Jeff Dover

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