Out Our Way: The Gospel according to Goliath: The heart of the matter

Mark 4: 17-23

Out our way, folks sometimes tell of great horse they have known. In Wyoming, I rode a Morgan mare named Autumn out at the Empire ranch. Cecil and Elsie had raised her and her siblings and all were good horses — but Autumn was beyond good — she was great.

I recall Cecil — who had to weigh more than 300 pounds — once rode her cross-country in a 50-mile race, and easily came in with the leaders. The vet who checked the horses wondered aloud if Cecil had been cheating — had not ridden the full 50 miles through the sand hills of Wyobraska, the area where the panhandle of Nebraska con...