I see your posts from time to time. Hope things are well with you.
Much of the last 6 months has been spent turning Mia (the horse whose ears are in the picture) into a trail horse. She has always been a spook-monster, but she is beginning to get interested in the trails...she’ll stretch her legs out and we’ll soon be several hundred yards ahead of the others. The next step in her training is to try to teach her to go ALONE into the desert. I’m hoping to start work on that in August.
I suspect most folks wouldn’t call that a ‘holy’ undertaking or associate it with God. While I’m a baptist, I tend to agree with the idea that God gives us different things to do, and doing them to the best of our ability honors Him. I think teaching a fear-ridden mare confidence is something God has given me to do. It won’t ‘win the world for Christ’ or gain me much respect, but it is God’s will that we become like Christ - to conform to his image. Jesus spent years taking care of his family building chairs or tables. If God Incarnate could build stuff for others, then who am I to complain that training a nervous horse is too little?
I’ll admit it is easier to seek His will when I don’t have secular culture being pumped into my home via the TV.
The Lord has seen fit to admonish me.
I suspect most folks wouldn’t call that a ‘holy’ undertaking or associate it with God. While I’m a baptist, I tend to agree with the idea that God gives us different things to do, and doing them to the best of our ability honors Him. I think teaching a fear-ridden mare confidence is something God has given me to do. It won’t ‘win the world for Christ’ or gain me much respect, but it is God’s will that we become like Christ - to conform to his image. Jesus spent years taking care of his family building chairs or tables. If God Incarnate could build stuff for others, then who am I to complain that training a nervous horse is too little?
The parable of the talents might be applicable here.
I’ll admit it is easier to seek His will when I don’t have secular culture being pumped into my home via the TV.
You're just saying that because it's true!!!