Sunset Horseback Lessons
I happened to catch the end of this, as the sun was going down…
My husband had decided to give the older two kids an impromptu horseback riding lesson.
My daughter was just slightly thrilled…
In case you didn’t catch that…
THRILLED!
My oldest (and he does have the oldest child personality, even though he’s only the oldest by twenty fear-fraught minutes, during which the obstetricians yelled “PUUUSH!” and the anesthesiologist turned up the epidural, in case they needed to surgically extract my second-born and administer oxygen)…
Wait, where was I?
Oh yes — my firstborn handled the horses like a pro.
I took pictures of him…
…but unfortunately for him, he doesn’t have hair that streams like a blaze of fire against the setting sun.
In case you didn’t catch that…
BLAZE OF FIRE.
This mama’s heart was pounding with every hoof beat. I have one question:
Where is her helmet??!
I didn’t spend 8.5 months having my abdomen distorted into Escher-ish proportions, only to lose her for failure to locate a hat.
And that’s that.
delightful!
I had to giggle just a little thinking of the child in me that has always “thrilled” on horseback in my mind but not actually on one until I was 50 yrs old and then God opened the flood gate and within one year I learned to ride and became a keeper of horses to eventually be gifted an Arabian gelding … the lessons God taught me with that horse still empower me … riding bareback as one racing the wind was a little girl fantasy … HE taught me stability [I was “a double minded person is unstable in all my ways”] when He brought me to a stable to reiterate the basics and the purpose of His calling … may we wear the helmet always…the helmet of His salvation!!
Great insights! I love your story! Thanks for sharing it! 🙂
what pure joy captured in your pictures!!!! 🙂 ahhhh, how I love that glowy light at the end of the day!!