I took a riding lesson Friday but I JUST HAD TO do one more before leaving this coming Friday. And, I did. I am now learning to post a trot, I have control of my horse (but I trot still on lunge line, for safety). I have my seat and I have a building relationship with the horse I ride. Gloria Steinem said many years ago, I have become the man I always wanted to marry and for many years I felt that way. Now, I feel I am becoming the woman God formed me to be. My trainer asked me if Im going to Europe alone and I said yes, but I always meet people in the tour group and her answer was Of course you do, youre lovely! She wasnt talking about my appearance. She was talking about the reason strangers want to talk to me, children love me, animals love me, and people come to me and ask for prayer. She doesnt know it, but shes seeing the Holy Spirit IN ME and I feel the Holy Spirit IN ME. Sometimes, its almost like walking in a golden bubble. Thats how it feels, sometimes. Not most of the time, sometimes. Funny enough I asked God some years ago for a hero, tall dark and handsome, and now I have one. That is my horses name: Hero. AND he is TALL, dark and handsome. Sensitive to my words and my breath, patient with my (often) fumbling beginners ways, calm, steadfast, kind. Thats my hero. How does it feel to ride a horse and know you are in good hands with your trainer and the horse is sound in temperament and exquisitely and sensitively trained to respond to his rider? It feels LIKE FREEDOM. The world falls away. You are one with the horse and you have to let him know this by interacting with him as you tack him up, by brushing him, by petting him, even by singing to him (Hero is getting used to this, guess no one ever did that before!) How does it feel to ride a horse given these things? FREE of grief; FREE of worry; FREE of the world, the flesh, the devil. FREE. I know from having bonded with my daughters horse Nell that the bond between Human and horse is unlike any other and cannot be explained in words. Hero and I are in the beginning of our relationship and its going quite well, thank you. On his back, I AM FREE and that is an enormous blessing from God, enormous. youtube/watch?v=Pc3OnSQc48s
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:27:43 +0000