For most of the ten years I was with The Upper Room, we lived in Mt. Juliet. Mt. Juliet is a small rural town about 20 miles east of Nashville, which was fast becoming a densely developed suburb. When we moved there from California, I was looking for space. I’d lived ten feet from my neighbors too long. I wanted at least the “country feeling.”

Mt. Juliet had it.

At least two “famous” people lived in Mt. Juliet. Charlie Daniels of country music fame, who is the best fiddler and whose band continues to be a premier one in music.

You’ve missed something if you’ve never heard the Charlie Daniels band play, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”

The other famous person was Will Campbell. Now don’t feel too badly if you don’t know one or both these names. Just take it as a call to humility. None …