..."As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
Joshua 24:15
"Anything which we keep in our hearts in the place which
God ought to have is an idol, whether it be an image of wood
or stone or gold, or whether it be money, or desire for fame,
or love of pleasure, or some secret sin which we will not give up.
If God does not really occupy the highest place in our hearts,
controlling all, something else does, and that something else is an idol."
James Russell Miller
(1840-1912)
American Christian pastor and author
(1840-1912)
American Christian pastor and author
The Cowboy
Gerard Curtis Delano
1890-1972
Painter and Illustrator of the American West
Did you ever stand on the ledges,
On the brink of the great plateau
And look from their jagged edges
On the country that lay below?
When your vision met no resistance
And nothing to stop your gaze,
Till the mountain peaks in the distance
Stood wrapped in a purple haze.
On the winding water courses
And the trails on the mountain sides,
Where you guided your patient horses
On your long and lonesome rides.
When you saw Earth's open pages
And you seemed to understand
As you gazed on the work of ages,
Rugged and rough, but grand.
There, the things that you thought were strongest
And the things that you thought were great,
And for which you have striven longest
Seemed to carry but little weight.
While the things that were always nearer,
The things that you thought were small;
Seemed to stand out grander and clearer.
As you looked from the mountain wall.
While you're gazing on such a vision
And your outlook is clear and wide,
If you have to make a decision,
That's the time and place to decide.
Although you return to the city
And mingle again with the throng;
Though your heart may be softened with pity
Or bitter from strife and wrong.
Though others should laugh in derision,
And the voice of the past grow dim;
Yet stick to the cool decision
That you made on the mountain's rim.
"The Time To Decide"
(1924)
(1924)
Bruce Kiskaddon
(1878-1950)
Cowboy poet laureate of America