Outdoor Truths: Aiming Outdoorsmen Toward Christ Feb 2nd
Gary Miller ~ outdoortruths.org
Several years ago, I took a fishing trip to Alabama. We actually went to crappie fish, but it was slow so that we reverted to catching bass. At that time I had never heard of a Carolina rig. Very few had. But I was introduced to the “hows” while I was there. I caught fish but the method was very awkward for someone who was raised “Texas” style. I decided to leave that technique in Alabama. Little did I know that soon after that, the Carolina boom would begin. At home tournaments began to be won with a Carolina rig but I stubbornly held to my Texas style worm. My convictions sounded good but they were convictions with no substance. I simply refused to forget the past and learn. We all can bring up past pain. We can wallow in the pit of our bad childhood or corrupt environment or a host of other things. And while these are real, they don’t have to control our life now. We can choose to adapt and overcome or stubbornly hold on to the ways of the past. And it’s all in being willing to learn and expose our weaknesses so that others can show us a new and better way.
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