Out Our Way: Sinking sand - 1 John 4:1-4

Out our way, you sometimes discover you can get fooled by appearances. Many of you may recall the time I was checking fence with Charlie and had to crawl through some hawthorn bushes to get to the corner post on the other side. I came upon what looked to be an opening in the grove of thorn trees and stepped onto what appeared to be a nice open patch of ground. It wasn't. It was a deep quagmire of mud - quicksand? - that had a light layer of dirt covering it. It looked like solid ground, but it was really sinking sand. I stepped onto what I thought was an old creek bed and went down to my k...