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In the West, "the cowboy way" is a common expression conveying the distinctive way of life of the American frontier. The Catholic Cowboy Way applies the principles of this rugged lifestyle to deepening your relationship with Christ. It is a means of relating to Jesus that we can all follow -- not just those on horseback. But the only way to get there is by being raw and real, sturdy, energetic, determined and committed.
To encounter Jesus as a cowboy, we must go beneath the surface of life and into the very depths of our hearts. We must be everyday honest with ourselves in order to be honest with God. We must acknowledge the good, the bad, and the ugly within our lives in order to encounter the God-Man, who is the source of all that is good; who took on all that is bad in order to redeem it; and who came to help us to persevere through all that is ugly.
I remember, in seminary, the buzzword was vulnerability. "Just be vulnerable, man." I understand they wanted us to be open and to be in touch with our thoughts, feelings, and desires, but there is something masculine lacking in this phrase.
If I'm trotting across the prairie next to my buddy, Zeke, and I tell him to "open up and be vulnerable," I might get a string of Beechnut in my lap.
But if I tell Zeke to be raw and real, then we might just get somewhere. And it'll be a lot more colorful, a lot more profound, than his getting in touch with his feminine side.
Cowboys already live by this code, and so do many of us. Most of us tell it as it is. And most, like Jesus, can smell inauthenticity a mile away.
What I show in this book is how to take the brutal honesty of the range and use it in our relationship with God. The Church needs more cowboys. I'll show you how to become one.
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