Out Our Way: Check your cinch

Proverbs 4:14 "Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers."

Out our way, accidents happen. One day, an old friend asked me to come out to help reset an old gravestone in a neglected and abandoned cemetery out on the prairie. The fence had long since fallen in disrepair and cattle had gotten in and rubbed against the headstones, knocking some over.

My friend had been friends with a youth back in the day whose headstone had been knocked over - and as we reset it in place he told me the story of the young man's death. He was about 18 and on a cattle drive when a sma...