Let Freedom Ring, and Then Go Rest High on That Mountain

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While serving in the United States (U.S.) Marine Corps, one of my military police (MP) buddies who knew I mainly listened to hip hop music discovered that I also enjoyed country music. Apparently, he shared appreciation for both musical genres, as well.

Additionally, my MP friend was surprised to learn that although I was baptized into the Churches of Christ faith during my freshman year of high school, I also hung out with gang members after a family with whom I attended church services took me into their home thereafter.

“You were really out here livin’ a double life,” my fellow MP stated. He wasn’t wrong! After all, my gangbanging friends knew nothing about my appreciation for the Grand Ole Opry or Country Music Television (CMT) on which I’d watched acts such as Martina McBride perform.

For instance, in 1993, McBride released her second studio album The Way I Am. It included the song “Independence Day”, about which one source states:

In the video, a daughter (Heidi Butler Prine) recalls a tragic incident she experienced as a child. Her mother (Darcie Jones) was involved in a domestic abuse [DV, particularly intimate partner violence; IPV] incident with her alcoholic father (Aaron Wrench). On Independence Day, the daughter walks to the town fair and hears rumors going on about the father’s abuse.

Apparently the whole town knew about the abuse, but did nothing to help stop it. That day, the mother burns down their house, presumably with the husband and herself inside it, and the daughter is sent to a county home. […]

The lyrics have a double meaning in that the woman in the story is finally gaining her “freedom” from her abusive husband. Thus, it is her “Independence Day.” The title also refers to the fact that the events noted in the song happened on the United States’ Independence Day, or July 4.

The chorus states, “Let freedom ring! Let the white dove sing. Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning! Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong. Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay, it’s Independence Day!” Personally, it’s a song of empowerment!

While it’s ill-advised for one to commit homicide while also completing suicide, I view Darcie Jones’ dilemma as disempowering if choosing to remain in a IPV situation. Thus, she gained independence from her abuser and from her life, though to the detriment of Heidi Butler Prine.

This is where my “double life” perspective comes into play. For context, a “dilemma” is a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice, specifically a situation involving such a choice. To expand upon this matter, I call upon a tool of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. This is known as distress or disturbance.

Noteworthy, with virtually any undesirable Action that occurs, it’s your unfavorable Beliefs which cause unpleasant distress or disturbance (Consequence). Given this framing of self-distress and self-disturbance, it’s worth noting that one REBT source states (page 71):

REBT conceptualizes [distress] as healthy even though it is intense. Other approaches to therapy have as their goal the reduction of the intensity of negative emotions. They take this position because they do not keenly differentiate between healthy negative emotions (distress) and unhealthy negative emotions (disturbance).

Now, REBT keenly distinguishes between healthy distress and unhealthy disturbance. Healthy distress stems from your rational beliefs about a negative activating event [Action], whilst disturbance stems from your irrational beliefs about the same event.

Complete elimination of distress is highly unlikely in an impermanent and uncertain world wherein people conceptually suffer, struggle, and battle with, or merely experience hardship. Still, individuals often make matters worse for themselves by disturbing about such instances.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to distress or disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive scripts, think of the acronym GLAD.

Additionally, from a psychological standpoint, people distress or disturb themselves using a Belief-Consequence (B-C) connection. Of course, this isn’t to suggest that in the context of the naturalistic or physical world there is no Action-Consequence (A-C) connection.

From an A-C view, repeated IPV events (Action) “can result in injuries and even death” (Consequence). However, from the B-C perspective, even when faced with a dilemma such as fleeing from or remaining in an IPV situation, people have choices regarding their outcomes.

For example, in the song, Darcie Jones is battered by Aaron Wrench (Action) and she hypothetically Believes, “Life is worthless if I stay in this relationship [G], and I couldn’t tolerate another moment of it [L], because it’s horrible [A], so I must set flames to it all [D]!”

With this unaccommodating self-narrative, Jones then commits murder-suicide by burning down their house, empoweringly gaining her independence on Independence Day. Although this form of problem solving may’ve resolved Jones’ dilemma, it created a new problem for her daughter.

Heidi Butler Prine is no longer exposed to DV when losing both of her parents (Action) and she hypothetically Believes, “My life has no meaning without my mom [G], and I can’t bear this burden [L], as it’s awful [A], because I shouldn’t be raised by anyone other than my mom [D].”

I know about this sort of self-disturbing Belief, as the family with whom I attended church services invited me to live with them when I lived in a children’s home. Using such disobliging self-narratives, people like Heidi Butler Prine and I could experience depression (Consequence).

My “double life” perspective, beginning in the self-disturbed outlook of my youth, applauded the mother for burning to death her abuser. However, my later self-distressed view, which I currently maintain, is appreciative of taking a healthier approach to an unhealthy situation.

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

Although I considered it empowering for Darcie Jones to have “let freedom ring” in regard to her IPV situation, I now don’t endorse her ultimate choice. Aside from the moral, ethical, and legal implications of her decision, she left Heidi Butler Prine with a host of problems thereafter.

Therefore, and although my outlook is admittedly subjective, I view the actions of the mother in “Independence Day” to have been of an unhealthy negative form of self-disturbance. This begs the question about what a healthy and negative form of self-distress may look like.

Suppose Darcie Jones was battered by Aaron Wrench (Action) and she hypothetically Believed, “I’d prefer to be treated better, though it’s clear that my circumstances aren’t going to change on their own, so I’m taking my daughter from this home rather than seeking a ‘day of reckoning.”

Fleeing the home, instead of razing to the ground the house in which the family resided, the mother and daughter could’ve remained united while gaining independence from a DV/IPV setting. This is arguably a preferred healthy and negative form or distress (e.g., frustration).

This brings to mind another REBT tool, as I’ll use other country music acts for elucidation. When watching CMT, I learned of the album When Love Finds You (1994) by Vince Gill. It contained the song “Go Rest High on That Mountain”, about which one source states:

“Go Rest High on That Mountain” is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. […] It is a eulogic ballad. Gill began writing the song following the death of country music singer Keith Whitley in 1989.

Gill did not finish the song until a few years later following the death of his older brother Bob of a heart attack in 1993. Ricky Skaggs and Patty Loveless both sang background vocals on the record.

In 2026, “Go Rest High on That Mountain” was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for its “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage.”

In high school, it hadn’t been since the Commodores, a funk and soul music group, released their song “Nightshift” (1985) that a eulogic ballad meant so much to me! Specifically, “Go Rest High on That Mountain” regarded death, which I thoroughly understood in my youth.

It’s worth noting that REBT uses unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).

Whereas the ABC model is a scientific approach to wellness, UA serves as a philosophical method for un-disturbing yourself. I view the former as an abortive approach to disturbance and the latter as a preventative method. Of course, not all REBT practitioners use the same style as I.

With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).

The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.

As it pertains to “Go Rest High on That Mountain”, in my opinion, Gill, Skaggs, and Loveless beautifully sang about the circle of concern and ULA. Explicitly, each and every living being that has ever existed, currently exists, and will ever exist empirically must die at some point.

On the chorus of “Go Rest High on That Mountain”, Gill, Skaggs, and Loveless sing, “Go rest high on that mountain. Son, your work on Earth is done. Go to Heaven a-shoutin’ love for the Father and the Son.” For the non-Christians in the audience, consider that one source states:

In the New Testament, Mount Zion is used metaphorically to refer to the heavenly Jerusalem, God’s holy, eternal city. Christians are said to have “come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven” (Hebrews 12:22–23, cf. Revelation 14:1).

Presumably, going to rest “high on that mountain” is a reference to the symbolism of Mount Zion, as it pertains to Heaven. Even if you are areligious or irreligious, I imagine that you can appreciate an end to suffering following this impermanent and uncertain life of ups and downs.

It’s worth noting that Gill reportedly debuted an additional third verse to “Go Rest High on That Mountain” at the Ryman Auditorium (once renamed Grand Ole Opry House for a period) in Nashville, Tennessee. In the venue rests a statue of Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl.

Note: Only suave Marines fresh out of boot camp could pull off wearing hi-gloss military dress Corfam shoes with white socks and blue jeans! Don’t hate the playa, hate the game!

Acuff and Pearl are Grand Ole Opry legends! Concerning McBride and Skaggs, a high school friend and I attended a country music concert at Ryman Auditorium prior to my graduation from U.S. Army Military Police School at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama (1997).

I recall thinking of how tiny McBride appeared to be, though how resounding her voice was. Unless my memory fails me, I hadn’t heard as powerful a voice at an in-person performance before, and I knew plenty of female chorus members when in high school. McBride could sing!

I was also impressed by Skaggs’ singing, as I enjoyed the time spent at the concert. Recently, McBride and the Commodores have reentered my awareness. For context, one source states that Freedom 250 is a program to celebrate the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence (1776-2026).

Originally scheduled to take place this summer, the event was designated by U.S. President Donald Trump. However, a number of performing acts have declined the invitation. This reportedly includes McBride, as well as purportedly including the Commodores.

From my perspective, artists who’ve canceled the invitation to perform for someone who’s supported genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes in the Middle East is truly how to let freedom ring, so that advocacy for cruelty can then go rest high on that mountain (i.e., die).

Well done, each and every artist who declined the offer that is soaked in virtual blood! I applaud you from afar, as your actions serve as an example of a healthy and negative form of distress (i.e., frustration) with ongoing U.S. cruelty abroad. Truly, you’ve done your nation a service!

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life—helping you to sharpen your critical thinking skills, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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