Out Our Way: Crawling to the Stirrups - Isaiah 30:20-21

Out our way, there is the old saying "Ain't a horse that can't be rode nor a cowboy who can't be throwed." I confess I was never much of a rider and was tossed a lot more often than many, but the folks who really can ride aways assured me that "getting dusted" is part of the process, and that what counts is not how often you were tossed off, but how often you got back on.

I recall riding one day along a hard-packed logging road in the Bear Paws - and I was enjoying racing along when "Doc" got a "stitch" in his leg and sought to kick it out on the run. Riding Doc at the gallop was something aki...