Praying For a Horse

My wife and I have a white board in our house, and at one point, we had a list of phrases on it that we referred to as "our list of things we never thought we'd say". Which wasn't actually true, as in order to think that you'd never say something, you'd have to first be able to imagine that you'd ever say something like that. These were things that we not only never thought we'd say, we'd never even think "Oh, I'd never say that" because they were just... odd.

Just to give you some flavor, #1 on the list was "I can't believe that monkey is still inflated." Which phrase, according to the collective knowledge that is Google, has never ever before been uttered in all of human existence.

It's a small claim to fame. Score one for Shari.

I mention this because, last night, I told one of the young ladies in my Sunday School class that I'd be praying for her horse. This definitely falls into the category of "not only did I never thought I'd say it, I never thought that I'd every think of saying it". And yet, I did.

She's a wonderful young lady, beautiful in many ways, and a farm girl to boot - I've got a soft spot in my heart for farm girls :-) Her horse, which she's had for many years and raised from a foal, may be lame. She's expecting to hear from the vet sometime today about what his condition is, and what needs to be done with the horse that's been her companion for years. If you don't think that sort of thing matters to God, then I suggest you go read 2 Samuel 12, and see how David - a man after God's own heart - reacted to the parable of the poor man's lamb.

So, yeah, I'm praying for a horse. Because it means a lot to a young lady who loves the Lord, who serves Him faithfully, who had the courage to organize and lead a Bible study in her public school. A young lady who's in God's will, and who is herself not just praying for her horse, but that her attitude would be right and that she would be at peace with whatever and however God works in her life in this matter.

She's got a lot on the ball. Like I said... she's a wonderful young lady.

And so - I'm praying for a horse.

Postscript:

Prayer works... apparently for horses and the young ladies who love them, as well as you and me.

[He] was in so much pain he almost fell over so I just went to hold his head while mom checked his leg. She found a 4 inch nail sticking out of his left hind hoof. The nail started in his cornnet band and went right down into the back of his frog.

... We got to the vets today and he took all the X-rays. When we went back to look at them I started to cry becuase God has been so good!!!! The nail stopped about 1 to 1/2 inch short of the synovial Sac and the Navicular Bursa which would have caused horrible and possibly unfixable damage. I thank you all for praying but I thank God most of all because I know that he is the one that stopped that nail in its tracks... [he] is still fighting a serious infection in his leg but I know if He chooses God will take care of that as well.