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Echoes From the Campfire

       “There's nothin' else you can do, 'cept stand yer ground and do what's right.”

       “Hard work...was not something to be feared.”

                    --Elmer Kelton  (Llano River)



       "Dear friends, you always followed my instructions when I was with you. And now that I am away, it is even more important. Work hard to show the results of your salvation, obeying God with deep reverence and fear."

                    --Philippians 2:12 (NLT)

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       "Life is…

      “Seems to me as though day-to-day events often have a tendency to simply lie in wait for our unknowing, blind arrival, ready to pounce on us like wild, stalking animals.”

      “To live a long time is nothing, to live a long time wisely is something.”

                         --Louis L'Amour  (The Californios)

       “The worst punishment God could inflict on the world would be to give people everything they wished for.”

      “Survival is determined by the honed skills of the one cutting a trail.”

      “Here the news that forced him to think of himself as a man somehow related to and responsible to his kind. He had gone to and fro over the trails of the desert, and many adventures had befallen him. He had lived them, with the force the desert seemed to have taught him, and then had gone his way down the lonely trails, absorbed in his secret.”

                         --Zane Grey  (Wanderer of the Wasteland)



       "Who led you through that…

      “The desert or mountain man was forever lifting his eyes to the peaks or to the stars; it was no wonder that men of the wilderness knew so much about the flight of birds and the habits of animals. In cities a man's eyes were on the ground, or rarely above eye level.”

      “I love to see some of the gnarled old trees; cedars and bristle-cone pines are favorites of mine, for so often they live where it doesn't seem possible to live. They grow right out of rocks, gnarled and twisted and old . . . but strong, stronger than anything but time, and they are part of time.”

      “The lesson of faith is not what turbulence you face but how you wind up on the other side.”

                         --Cliff Hudgins  (Grandpa's Legacy)



       "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him...."

       "I think that God allows things to happen because of our stupidity, then we have to pay the cost, or someone does."       --D.C. Adkisson  (Redemption)

       "Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving."     --Colossians 4:2 (NKJV)

     One thing for sure you need to survive in this wicked world is prayer.  Prayer keeps the communication line open with God.  There are many books on how to pray, a method of prayer, etc.  The thing that must be…

        “Life cannot simply be about happiness. It must also be about honor and obligation.”

      “It's up to the individual to do the best he or she can with what's available.”

        “There are moments in a person's life when hopelessness comes like the fading sunlight on a cold winter's day.”

       “The way to succeed in life was just to keep trying...and to keep faith.”

                    --Louis L'Amour  (Down the Long Hills)



       "Moreover [let us also be full of joy now!] let us exult and triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance."

        "That's where the hope comes in, after death."  --D.C. Adkisson (Mal de Ojo)

        "Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us."   --Romans 5:5 (NKJV)

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       "Love so amazing, so divine..." (Isaac Watts)  These words must be spoken about the cross.  Without the work on the cross the resurrection…

       “Evil always smiles when it thinks it's won.”

       “For it was our way to go onward; to go forward and to try to shape our world into something that would make our lives easier, even if more complicated. Our struggle was for time. Our leisure was bought from hardship, and we needed leisure to think, to dream, to create.”

                    --Louis L'Amour  (Bendigo Shafter)



       "Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. Remember how you remained faithful even…

       "But strong men stayed. Men with skin like saddle leather and clear eyes that saw beyond today.”

                         --Louis L'Amour  (Guns of the Timberland)



       "Some Gadites joined David at the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for battle, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as gazelles on the mountains"