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IN TRAINING
I am in the middle of training two horses and one of them, my sorrel; you would think was out of her mind if you saw her in the pasture. She paces up and down the fence line and she never is in the same spot when you look out the window. Now, my black bay is the calm looking one and she stands in one place and eats as she goes. She takes a nap every day and she sleeps for about an hour or so. This drives the sorrel nuts, she paces and paces and dose not graze until the black bay is up. They are both four years of age but very different they are both from the same stock but very different. I have learned a very valuable lesson wile training these two animals. Looks can be deceiving, although my sorrel looks very unpleasant she if very easy to ride and she is very willing to learn and when I ride her all I have to do is give her little correction. From the time I get her in the pasture she is calm, she settles right down she knows it is time to behave like she needs to. She trusts me with everything she has in her heart. Even though at first when I got her we had our battles she was not so nice she tried to bite me. The first day I owned her she came at me with her mouth wide open and her ears flat back to her head. My first thought was that I was going to have to have her put down that she was not going to be any good to anyone. But I took her and I disciplined her and now she is the best animal that I could ever want to have. She responded to me like she should have. She listened to my instruction that was “don’t bite and you won’t get disciplined.”
Now for my black bay, she is a different story. She has a mind of her own; she wants to do things her own way and in her own time. She is lazy and not responsive to my touch and when I ask her to do something she complains. She will shake her head or pull on the bit or she will just plane not do it. She is slow to respond and dose not care if you get on to her with just the boot so we have to respond to her with the spur “OUCH” that gets her attention quickly. The more she dose not respond to me the less rain she gets. The less she responds to my leg the more spur she gets. The quicker she responds to me the faster she gets her rain back and the more of it she gets the more freedom she gets to have. But if you bind her up to much she will buck. Control is given up the quickest when she realizes who the boss is. That I won’t let her get hurt in the presses of the training, that she can totally trust me and give in to what I tell her to do. It takes persistence with my black bay she is very hard headed. There is a balance with both of these animals but there looks are deceiving and if we just sat and looked at them in the pasture we would think that the sorrel was the stubborn one and the black bay was the good one. The other is when we are in training with God we need to know when he is pulling on the rain and we need to respond to his touch and to his voice. Because if we don’t we may miss the biggest blessing of them all. It is us that fail him not him that fails us. We walk out on him, not him that walks out on us. We stop the faith in him, he dose not stop faith in us. You see if I had just gave up on my sorrel and put her down like I thought I should because she tried to bit me I would have missed out on the biggest blessing in her. Looks are very deceiving.
When God puts us to the test we need to lessen to what he is trying to say to us. We need to hear what kind of word he is giving to us; we need to see what kind of sign he is giving to us. Peace be still in our soul and he will visit and talk to us prophetically. I believe in my soul that he is near and that we need to bring him to us bring him so close to us that nothing can shake him away from us. We have two ears to hear but he speaks to our soul. The control in my life is his. When I start doing for him that is when it starts spiraling out of control. I need to take a deeper look on the inside and find out were he needs to change me and let him heal what needs to be healed. Let it go and let God be God. God does not see me for were I am but were I am going.
By Tricia Bond
3/15/05
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