Lay it on the line

I talk a lot about faith. I talk a lot about honesty. I talk a lot about growth. I talk a lot about healing. I talk a lot about lessons; I wax poetic about how they relate to the horses. Fact is there have been many lessons, as many lessons as there have been horses. Typically they have presented themselves with uncanny timing; this is not to say that I have always appreciated the timing, much less the lesson. I suspect the biggest lesson is starting. It wasn't a lesson I'd have anticipated when I started this blog. When I started this blog it was about the growth they afforded me through quite a bit of loss; that still holds true. A different type of loss came when I lost my job; subsequently bringing an end to a career that I spent nearly fifteen years building. It turned...

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A new way of thinking

When the animals (starting with Leo) came into my life, I was witness to a new way of thinking. I was presented with a faith that I didn't quite understand. Over the last year I made a conscience decision to change my way of thinking, to shift my view of the world, to allow that level of faith into my world. I did not come to this decision by choice, it was prompted by the loss of my job. That being said it most certainly was a choice, prompted or not. I can't tell you how many times holding onto that faith, the faith of one that can not imagine lying, found me wanting to give up. Then I have a moment or two like the ones I had today and I remember why giving up is simply not an option. Katie was in the arena, just being turned out, nothing work related when Cathy went to get a coffee....

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