Out Our Way: Deceptive 'friends'

Genesis 3:1-6 - "Now, the serpent was more crafty than any other creature ..."

Out our way, most folks like to kid around and don't really mean any harm - but sometimes harm comes anyway. They say they are "friends" but sometimes act like enemies.

I have likely shared this before, but at my first roundup and branding, I very nearly had a very painful prank pulled on me. Being an absolute tender foot and "cowboy wanna be," the wranglers let me ride with them and even helped herd some of the cattle into the branding corral.

Now, this ranch had a branding pen set up. The cattle were driven into a...