Confronted with the reality of death, living has both its challenges and obstacles. Thus Spoke Zebediah is a "Smoky Mountain Version" based on the book of Ecclesiastes. Thus Spoke Zebediah begins, The year was 2001 and Zebediah (God's gift) had been living on Rich Mountain in the Smoky Mountains near Townsend, Tennessee. After ten years of solitary study and meditation in a tucked away mountain cave, Zebediah felt called by the great Mystery to come down from the mountain to share what was on this mind and heart. He realized from the outset that folks would be fixed on their own ways and their own ways of thinking and doing things. He wasn't descending from the mountain to gather up a following. No, he was coming down because he was a little tired of listening to himself all these years and began wondering if others might have some of the same ponderings about life and death and death and life as he. His conclusion about life is rather simple: Sometimes life ain't much punkin? but me and God will make do ? Zebediah often felt as though God done forgot God's part and that everything had been put into his own hands. This came to him in a dream one night. Thus begins an exploration to the weightier things of life, Appalachian style.