This is John, the resident guard mule at the farm where we board our horses, Gretchen & Scooby. Isn’t he gorgeous? His coat glistens; he lives at rapt attention; and he owns the space he occupies. He also detests being handled. John came to the farm that way. The owner tried simply sitting in theContinue reading “Chasing Off Demon John”
Tag Archives: equine therapy
Celebrate the Journey
In a recent piece, Building Relationships, I shared with you some of the lessons I am learning from my equine instructor, Gretchen. Like our English Bulldog, Barnabas, she inherited a life goal just by joining our family: be a tool for teaching Scriptural Truth. In our mind, that goal meant the pets would become therapy animals forContinue reading “Celebrate the Journey”
Lifemanship
It is my joy to share the excitement of our recent training on ‘Relationships.’ For three days, my daughter, Riesa and our friend Debbie invested our hearts and minds (and bodies) into understanding Relationship Principles that can be visibly demonstrated with horse and human interaction. I am excited about the content and looking forward to building it into aContinue reading “Lifemanship”