Out Our Way: God is love - 1John 4:7-8

Out our way, nature preaches a sermon daily to those who have the eyes, ears, minds and spirit to pay attention. Maybe it’s I because I am a pastor that I am so aware it is all around, but I know Charlie understood it as well. We would ride up a ridge and just sit for a moment to drink it in. The cattle, the song birds, the smells in the breeze, and the big open all around us testified to the simple statement “God is love.”

I learned a great deal from “Doc” — so named because he as my teacher and professor of Horse Sense Theology — but there are others on God’s faculty who...