Out Our Way: The Gospel According to Goliath: 'We gotta try'

Mark 8:1-10

Out our way, folks are expected to do the best they can with what they have rather than complain about what they don't have. A couple of years back my saddle pard, Charlie, and I were trying move a few hundred head - or so it seemed - down from their summer pasture to their winter grounds. The problem was, they didn't want to go. The grass was getting short from all the grazing, but the water in the reservoir was still high, and these pairs were reluctant to leave the water hole.

Charlie and I rode down to the watering hole and began herding the pairs toward the lower pasture, whic...