I got a video from my favorite Equine practioner. Clinton Anderson is a great clinician. He teaches you working with horses. Not riding, but working with them. I love learning how to train them. This video is titled, “Regaining Lost Confidence”. It is a video on how to come back to horses after many years absence and feel a connection to them again and not be afraid.
Often, we will spend time away from God, only touching our spiritual side for a short time. We wander away and think we’re doing ok. It goes usually something like this: we were fervent as a youth, going to church, active working, making our hands be God’s hands.
Then something happens. We lose hope because of a person, or an activity. The Priest fails us in some way. Someone at church hurts a child, or you. They preach one time too many about funds or sin or hell and you leave. You just don’t come quite so often.
Then you don’t really come at all. God is a faint whisper that you hear on the few occasions when it impacts your life directly, like Christmas, Easter, when you are asked what you believe, or how you vote or do you support abortion.
And then one day, you realize that there is music in your heart that you haven’t heard in years, there is a song, a friend, a lover who you miss and need.
Then it hits you… you don’t know how. How do you do the church thing? How do you go from nothing to something after childhood? Will they ridicule you for forgetting?
He says come. He doesn’t ask you to do it right. He only says come. He can give you the confidence you need to return home. Come to the home of the heart and step back into the work that fulfills everyone.
Regain your lost confidence and live.
