Sometime, stuff just doesn't work out quite how it was planned. That's actually pretty much the story of me. For example, this morning.
We were going to try and do a dry run of a morning ride, doing it as close as possible to what we would encounter once campers arrive. We picked up the Summer Staff at 4:30 AM to feed, catch, and saddle all the horses. That actually went pretty well, but as soon as people showed up to ride, everything went south pretty quickly. Not having enough riders, but still wanting to take all the horses to simulate a full ride of campers, we decided to pony, or tie them to us and drag, our extra horses. After about 30 feet on the trail, I could tell it would be rough, but we pressed on anyways.
I don't really want to type it all, but suffice it to say that in three years of leading trail rides, this was hands down the worst ride I have ever been a part of. I got pulled off my horse two different times, one wrangler got clotheslined off and possibly bruised her ribs, another wrangler's saddle began to fall off and he bailed out into a tree, resulting in a broken saddle. Almost everything that could have gone wrong did.
But, as bad as it was, there was some good that came out of it. We learned who some our rock solid horses were, we learned what not to do, and having the worst ride ever now will make me appreciate every ride that goes somewhat well.
It's kinda funny, in a way. God over and over shows me things this way. I tend to be very stubborn and ignore the signs when I don't like the lesson being presented to me. Instead of taking the easy way and learning things without shooting myself in the foot, I tend to take the hardest route possible. I feel like God tries to guide me, but then I ignore it, so He sends whatever I have built up around me crashing into a fiery mess. After my best laid plans fall at my feet, God shows me how far off what I had planned was from what He has for me and how much better His plan is than mine. I'm slowly learning to listen to that quiet voice and nudge I feel and hear if I let myself.
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Just another day in the life...and how I feel about it
2 comments:
sorry to hear the ride was so awful. but you're right though--you won't appreciate the good ones until you have a bad one!! and keep it up with listening carefully to God... He knows WAY better than you! (and that sounded funny to say as i don't know you well enough to comment on your intellect or common sense... but you know what i mean haha)
Also, you should follow the Golden Rule. I'm not entirely sure how it would be applied except to say that, instead of shooting yourself in the foot, you should let your friends (ie me) shoot you in the foot.
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