OUT OUR WAY: "Signs of the Trade"

Out of our way, I spent several hours in ER after Doc tossed me and I really banged up my back and ribs. I was told by some real deal cowhands that such injuries go along with the trade.

Today, years later, after a fall over a lawnchair, those same injuries have reawakened.

I am in pain that the asperin cannot touch - and I need to sleep sitting up for the time being. But as the old timers told me -if you are going to cowboy, you are going to get hurt from time to time.

I found the same is true in discipleship. Christ is Head of the Church, but it is made up of sinners. If you are going to fol...