Shortgrass
Well-known member
I was visiting with a good friend of mine last week. He told me about his elk hunting trip. He and his son had gone over on the Grand Mesa and hunted the country between Divide Creek and Owens Creek. As he told of the marvelous scenery, it was easy for me to picture the canyons and valleys. The pockets of black timber, and Quakie trees standing bare came easily to mind, because a college buddy that ranched over there and I have gathered cattle and hunted deer on East Divide Creek where the college buddy had a forest lease. He told of how they watched a snow storm approach from the Book Cliffs across the Colorado River and blanket the Grand Mesa with several inches of new snow. He told of how he had enjoyed evenings in the tent and around the campfire talking with his son. They had discussed hopes and dreams and made plans to bring some of them to reality. They had had a wonderful time. They had fished and hunted, seen elk, deer and a bear. They had not even got to shoot. They got "skunked". I ask you, was their trip a failure? They didn't think so. Their success had not been measured by the amount of meat they brought home or the big rack that wasn't there. Now, I ask you if life is a failure because we don't "bag the big one"? My old leather-bound book tells me that He will give us life, and life abundant. Then it also says that our life does not consist of the abundance of things. Hmmm--I wonder--maybe it's just living for Him that makes life abundant. You all have yourselves a good Sunday mornin and a good rest of the week. Have fun doin it!
