I owned "Evins Mill" and the 39.5 acres including the historical buildings and 3 waterfalls in a gorge. HERE My late husband and I bought it in 1986. We planned for it to be our forever home. Just as we finished spending 6,000 hours each restoring the property ourselves and just as I had it all set up as a private hideaway for the writers of God's songs and just as Robin had finished his Drilling Data Center, the first time in history this had been done, (and we did the last years of it here), he unexpectedly died on Christmas Eve. I wrote a book about it all, "Chapelgate, a Spiritual Memoir."
So what this short-story is is fast forward a few decades to 2018 and I have a grown daughter and a new baby granddaughter who is turning one year old. I wanted my daughter and granddaughter to have a special bond with the home I loved so much. I had renamed "Evins Mill" (my own name, that I gave it to honor God), "Chapelgate." To me it was like a perfect little precious jewel, like a chapel, where I could bring the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music Songwriters, Recording Artists, and Executives. My idea was that the beauty and the spirit we were creating there would nourish them. We could all be friends and write our songs about God for the world.
Instead, God took over the rest of the restoration for me, my plans to expand it are now finished, just like I had dreamed. So I took my daughter and granddaughter there to celebrate her first birthday. That will always be a special memory to tie them to Chapelgate. I took all my children there over the years.
In 2018, we flew from Austin to Nashville and back. So we also went to take a look at the Grand Ole Opry. We ate in one of my favorite kinds of restaurants - the kind that has beautiful fish swimming everywhere while you eat. Thank you, Father, for all your blessings, for my family, and for Chapelgate.
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Written October 24, 2024 at 8:46 am
