Ride the High Country - A Prayer for Gratitude and Understanding
Joshua Knudsen: [Pause]
Heavenly Father, we thank thee for the food on this table. Teach thy children to be grateful for thy goodness; to walk in thy path, that they may not suffer thy wrath and thy vengeance. Bless us, O Lord, and these, our guests; and forgive them the mercenary desires which brought them here. Amen.
Gil Westrum:
I thank you for entering a plea in our behalf, Mr. Knudsen; but what's this about mercenary desires?
Joshua Knudsen:
You're on your way to Coarsegold, ain't you?
Gil Westrum:
Yes.
Joshua Knudsen:
Well, them that travel there do so for one reason only: to traffic in gold! Which, to possess, is to live in fear; to desire, to live in sorrow.
Steve Judd:
But we're not trafficking, sir; merely transporting.
Joshua Knudsen:
It says in the Book: gold is a stumbling block to them that sacrifice to it, and every fool shall be taken therewith.
Steve Judd:
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver or gold – Proverbs, chapter 22.
Joshua Knudsen:
Into the land of trouble and anguish come the old lions, and they shall carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, to a people that shall not profit them – Isaiah, chapter 30, verse 6. That mining town is a sinkhole of depravity; a place of shame and sin.
Elsa Knudsen:
According to my father, every place outside this farm is a place of sin.
Joshua Knudsen:
That'll do.
Elsa Knudsen:
You don't have to preach at everybody!
Joshua Knudsen:
That will do!
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Ride the High Country - The Value of Eggs and Youthful Humor
Steve Judd:
If you could spare us a few eggs, we'd be glad to pay for em.
Joshua Knudsen:
Well, one you can have; because the Lord's bounty is not for sale. The rest are a dollar each.
Heck Longtree:
A dollar each?!! Now how in the world do those short-legged chickens lay eggs so high?
Joshua Knudsen:
Levity in the young is like unto a dry gourd, with the seeds rattling around.
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