This past winter Heather and I took the boys back to Georgia to visit my dad. He and his wife have a beautiful place in the Mountains. They built a nice house and fenced in a pretty good size pasture for their two horses. One of those brisk days while we were out some extended family brought their horses over. Dad got on one of those horses and took off. Everything was going well until the saddle started sliding sideways. Undoubtedly, it had not been cinched tight. Well, as good stories go there is a climactic point and this one is no different. What happened next will take a few sentences to write out but in real time maybe three seconds passed for dad and that crazy horse.
As we sat there in amazement the horse picked up speed and all looked well. Then the strangest thing started to happen. Dad appeared to be taking a hard left and leaning into it but the horse kept going straight. The struggle intensified until that climactic moment when mans strength failed and gravity won. Man and beast were separated which lead to man and ground uniting. Dad bounced, I gasped and all the women screamed.
To all of our amazement dad was upright before we could even get to him, Bruised but not broken thankfully. You know the old saying “if you fall off a horse you have to get back on…” Well…I learned that day (from a horseman I might add) that if you fall off a horse go take three ibuprofen and sit in the hot tub! You can get back on horse next week.
All that to say this, I stopped blogging back in the spring. Life just got too crazy. I still journaled and wrote but it was more of a personal nature. Writing became a source of frustration for me instead of an encouragement. So I went to sit in the mental hot tub I guess. (just kidding…had to make the connection right?)
For real though, the urge to write has been renewed I guess. So I am excited to be back. There are so many things that I look forward to writing about. My prayer is that what is written would be an encouragement to your own soul.
Laugh, cry, live or die,
but never forget to love. Chad
As we sat there in amazement the horse picked up speed and all looked well. Then the strangest thing started to happen. Dad appeared to be taking a hard left and leaning into it but the horse kept going straight. The struggle intensified until that climactic moment when mans strength failed and gravity won. Man and beast were separated which lead to man and ground uniting. Dad bounced, I gasped and all the women screamed.
To all of our amazement dad was upright before we could even get to him, Bruised but not broken thankfully. You know the old saying “if you fall off a horse you have to get back on…” Well…I learned that day (from a horseman I might add) that if you fall off a horse go take three ibuprofen and sit in the hot tub! You can get back on horse next week.
All that to say this, I stopped blogging back in the spring. Life just got too crazy. I still journaled and wrote but it was more of a personal nature. Writing became a source of frustration for me instead of an encouragement. So I went to sit in the mental hot tub I guess. (just kidding…had to make the connection right?)
For real though, the urge to write has been renewed I guess. So I am excited to be back. There are so many things that I look forward to writing about. My prayer is that what is written would be an encouragement to your own soul.
Laugh, cry, live or die,
but never forget to love. Chad
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lol you have my interest...
- sellek
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