Dear Anxiety, For years you have been lurking in the shadows of my mind, biding your time until you saw the perfect opportunity to insert yourself into my life. You came dressed in vibrant colours and draped in glittering jewels with a voice that acted as a soothing balm to my parched heart. You whispered [...]
We live in a fast-paced, do-it-yourself, put on your big girl pants kind of world. We rush, and we hustle, and we hurry, and we search for meaning as we run from one thing to the next. As humans, we crave connection, to know that we’re not alone and that someone out there cares for [...]
Where do you usually look during the day? Down at your phone, over the steering wheel out the windshield, at the ground beneath your feet, at the computer screen in front of you, off into the distance wishing that you could be anywhere else but where you are right now? Where we look is where [...]
With Thanksgiving just past and the memories of laughter and good food still lazing through our minds, it’s important to remember that we aren’t supposed to save all of our gratitude and thankfulness for one day a year, we are to be continually giving thanks to God for all that he has done for us. [...]
For the first time, I have no words, no plan, and no idea where this specific blog post will go. Unlike everything else that I’ve written, this post comes from a place that is still bleeding and intensely raw. I didn’t even know if I was going to publish this until just a few minutes [...]
When a horse is listening to you, they’ll tip their ears back towards you, showing you that their focus is on what you’re asking them to do and not on everything that’s going on around them. When their ears are pricked forward, it means that their attention is elsewhere, probably on something blowing in the [...]
This past week I spent most of my days leading trail rides for 8-10 year old children. Some were scared, some were excited, some didn’t want to be around the horses, some were physically shaking with excitement every time they saw a horse, and some were suddenly and surprisingly allergic to horses. If there’s one [...]
