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Echoes From the Campfire     

     “How terrifying to think of one small soul alone with the Creator—not alone as in prayer, but mute, voiceless, waiting for His word!”

               --Zane Grey (Captive of the Desert)

     "Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge."

               --Psalm 51:4 (NKJV)

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          "I come to the Garden…

Echoes From the Campfire     

     “On a late afternoon when the clouds gather around the peaks and the lightning begins to play its games over the mountain meadows, the high country is no place to be, but it can be spectacular to watch from a safe distance. At such times the hills can be alive with the sound that isn't music, but it has a magnificence of its own.”

               --Louis L'Amour (Passin' Through)

     “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in…

Echoes From the Campfire     

     “There is a weariness of the flesh, and that can be borne. Beyond that is a weariness of the bone, far harder to abide, but possible. But the final weariness, of the nerves and brain, when a man may at any moment pitch unconscious from the saddle, is the worst and most unendurable torment.”

               --Paul I. Wellman (The Comancheros)

     "For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become…

Echoes From the Campfire

“A man can have a little bit and feel rich, or he can have a lot and feel poor.”

--Elmer Kelton (The Time It Never Rained)

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

--Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)

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In my earlier years I spent some time learning how to tie knots. I figured that a person…