I have a hard lesson to learn and I am going to need God to get through it. My oldest is going to college for Equine Science which really is an open ended career. She can become a vet, teach kids to ride, board and stable, or what she has chosen to become a horse trainer. This is where you work with horses that others have messed up or who have been allowed to develop bad habits. There is the sub track that takes you right into a ring of fire, rehabilitation of abused and mistreated horses of course that is the track my daughter has chosen. Most of the time she will be working with animals that are hurting and need her to love and reach out to them, while they are doing whatever possible to protect themselves even if it means stomping those trying to help them. But she does have a gift for this type of work, how did we find this out?

 

Enter into the picture Conner a six year old gorgeous paint mare with blue eyes and beaten so bad that she almost died then survived only to end up on a slaughter truck, rescued from that fate and brought into my daughters life by the rescue that our stable works with... Of course my daughter is in love and of course the mare is only responding to my daughter... Like her boss said my daughter has a gift from God. I have to agree she is on the path God has given her and she is thriving.

 

Now the hard part for mom... I have to watch my baby girl walk into a arena with a horse that though she is learning to trust and responds to this human, all of her instincts are screaming hurt before being hurt. With God at her side my daughter is bravely walk where few dare to go.. 

 

I just have to trust God's love for my daughter and for some a very special hurting horses.