NO MAN'S SLAVE

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).

If I remember correctly, I am currently watching the mini series, Centennial, for the 13th time.  It was given to me for Christmas in 1998 by the lovely and gracious Helen in video casett form.  I took a couple of years off watching it because of not having a VCR player that worked.

My favorite episode of the mini series is of the cattle drive of 1868 when John Skimmerhorn and R.J. Poteet and cowboys trailed 3,000 cattle from Texas to Colorado to start the Venneford Ranch.  The foreman of the cowboys was a black man named Nate Person.  Nate had been a slave before the Civil War, now he was free.  One of the great lines of the episode was when Nate said, "When you are a cowboy you are no man's slave."  There's something about a cowboy.  I've raised cattle and hogs.  The hogs make the money, but nobody writes songs about farmers who raise pigs.  There's some romance and freedom in being a cattleman.  The cattleman is out in the open spaces making his own decisions--cattleman walk a little taller than other men.

Still, when one is a slave to Jesus Christ, he is the most free that he will ever be because he belongs to the family of God and heir to His wealth.

Our Father's Blessings,
Tom