I've owned him for the past eight years. This is me roping off of him in high school.
My alter-ego is Jim Craig from The Man from Snowy River and I actually grew up wanting to be a large animal vet. God had other things in mind and I've held on to my horse pretty tightly. "Necessary Endings" by Henry Cloud is a book that I've been processing through and selling Cash was an opportunity to practice the reality of endings that Cloud speaks of. For whatever reason I don't let go of things very well and unfortunately for me, letting go of things is a part of life. As we read in Ecclesiastes, "there is a time for everything."
I'm a slow processor and am bad at "metabolizing" a past experience to learn from it as Cloud writes, end it, and move on to the next season. My goal is to preach about and shine a light on the things HE is doing in my life because HE is so intricately involved in every aspect of my life and I want His evidence to be known. (The point of this blog). This is me writing and metabolizing the reality that I don't always know what He is doing or what I'm supposed to learn. If you've spent any considerable time talking with me or reading my blog you know that most of the lessons I've learned in life and the metaphors in my vocabulary came from working with horses. This means I've either graduated, given up my credibility, or need to find new material for my metaphors.
Providing for and leading a family requires sacrifice and being a Christian requires giving up our lives - losing our lives to gain Christ. I know families and Christians who are literally losing their lives for Christ and sacrificing much; my loss seems small in comparison. I am thankful for God's patience as I even give up my horses to Him. Cash went to a great home on a huge ranch with other horses to a great guy who will love him, use him and eventually retire him. (Horse talk for shoot him. Just kidding, I promise I'm not that calloused, this is normal in processing endings, I read about it.)
Anyway, here's to twenty years of being a cowboy. I'm not giving up my spurs just yet. (I can't find them).
Now does anyone want to buy a horse trailer?
Cowboy Collin
