Recently, I heard a preacher on TV encouraging his congregation about a subject he was excited about. While exhorting them to take a stand, he said, “The only thing you’re going to find in the middle of the road is something that has been run over!”

Yes, these days, if you are in the middle of the road, you often feel like roadkill. I know sometimes I do. There’s a left side of the road and there’s a right side of the road. And there are loud proponents on each side declaring that their way is the only correct way to go. More so, they are declaring the other side of the road leads to destruction. But there are deep ditches on both sides of that road.

Growing up, there were plenty of dirt roads down around Clement. And when you are a teenager, driving on them can be interesting. We had an

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