Some exciting things that have happened lately is we got to watch Lew Sterrett do a Sermon on the Mount presentation a couple weeks ago. Mr. Sterrett is a horse trainer from Miracle Mountain Ranch in PA that trains a horse while sharing parallels with the Christian walk with Christ and also in relationships with people. It was such a blessing to see him patiently work with an untrained horse who was moody, selfish, cantankerous, and so self-centered until it willingly, joyfully, and submissively walked with him and obeyed what he asked him to do. What a picture of Christ paitently working with us and drawing us to His heart until we are willing to let Him work in our lives and lead us where He wants us to go. Last night, in devotions we read a verse in John 15 where Jesus is talking with His disciples that exactly fit: "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in His love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full." (KJV) In other words... "I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Live within my love. When you obey me you are living in my love, just as I obey my Father and live in His love. I have told you this so that you will be filled with My joy. Yes, your cup of joy will overflow!" How precious is His love!
This is Spark, a 12 year old palamino quarter horse that was very well trained! Mr. Sterrett rode him brideless as he worked with the young colt that was hardly handled until he accepted a saddle and rider all within 2 hours.
I love this picture of attentiveness! I hope I can get my horse to do this!
Harmony!
Last week, our dog, Randy went chasing after a rabbit and didn't watch where he was going. He ran into a cattle panel and made a 6 inch cut in his side. We had to take him to the vet's and he now has 10 stitches and a shaved side. Poor Randy was a little embarrased with being shaved, but has now recovered his dignity in spite of it and is back ruling his domain. =)
Yesterday, I went with the Brocketts to pick sweet cherries and it was such good picking that I brought home 50 lbs! So, for 3 hours Ben and I were really in the pits. But we didn't mind since it was raining out, we brought everything and continued pitting cherries while we watched a Lew Sterrett training dvd. We enjoyed being in the pits then! =) I tried to pay close attention to the dvd because it was sharing things that I could use with my horse, Tal. If anyone gets pits in their cherries when we eat them this winter, they'll just have to do dishes! =)
Today, we are getting things ready to start butchering our first batch of chickens for the summer tomorrow and Friday. We have close to 200 to do counting the Brocketts' birds. Jonathan was sharpening knives, Ben is fixing crates, and I made a chocolate cake for snacks along with cookies. Anyone want to come help?! =D
4 comments:
The Lew Sterrett clinic looked neat! I hope you can get Tal trained soon!! The palomino horse is so pretty!
We'll be there!!!!
(ahem, cough....uh in spirit ok??)
We want to find out about the horse training dvd's. Sounds interesting.
Mention of butchering reminds me of all the fun we had that week in Aug 2 yrs ago. I miss you Abby! Thanks for the update of events. That guy with the horses is really neat and cherries sound delightful.:)
We would have absolutely been there to help you, but we found some flamingos at the camp sight that needed to be delivered back to sunny Florida. And speaking of things we found, we also found this peeping Tom in the tent with Kelly, ha ha. She was shocked. Later that day, we spotted "Tom" on the back of the Brocketts truck. You better lookout Brocketts, he's a sneaky one!!
The littles and bigs LOVED the balloons. So sorry we couldn't come by, it was a sad day when we headed back, believe me :( But the flamingos appreciated it, they were freezing way up yonder.(Actually, we meant to send them back to you, but they somehow got lost in the rv, imagine that!)
Can't wait to see you again.
Love to all,
The P's
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