How Embarassing!

Ok, so there we were making laps around the arena wide open. My horse tied to a bucking horse with me along for the ride. If you can’t imagine it was quiet a helpless and embarrassing feeling. The only thing I could do was to leave to comfort of my 15” leather saddle and make my way up my horses neck to get the rein unsnapped. After a couple laps I got up there and managed to get the rein unsnapped, and everything went back to normal.


Again you may ask, That’s a funny story but what’s your point? Don’t you know telling this story makes you look stupid?


My point In this story and the previous one about the Wal-Mart pit stop, was pride. As I get older and try to think back on things and learn from past mistakes. I have noticed at times in my life when I start getting cocky, arrogant, or think to highly of my self. I always get humbled.


I am not genius or scholar but I try to read my Bible and learn from it. I like to read the Old Testament stories. One theme that pops out to me, I guess because I can relate, is the stories of God’s people and thier PRIDE. Sometimes I think they were so stupid. They would follow God and obey him and he would bless them, when he blessed them they would get prideful because of the blessings. When they would get prideful he would punish them. After he punished them they would humble themselves, he would bless them, they would get cocky, he would smite them. This happened over and over for thousands of years.


A couple things I took out of those stories, 1. God hates Pride. 2. God wants to bless his people. 3. God disciplines his people. James 4:6 says “But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.


Like I said I can relate because my life has always been like those people. Just in these two quick examples. God blessed me by letting me make a good ride at a big rodeo, I got cocky, he humbled me. God blessed me by letting me get the call to move up to start picking up the professional rodeos, I got to thinking to highly of myself and God humbled me.


On one hand its nice to know God loves you enough to discipline you, but on the other hand being humbled is not a very good feeling. So what should we do? The older I get the less I care about getting embarrassed, shoot I use public bathrooms now without even wiping off the toilet seat or closing the stall door! I guess what I am saying is that I try not to take myself too seriously anymore. That’s why I can tell these embarrassing stories on this blog for thousands of people to read. I’ll tell you what, it’s a pretty good feeling not to worry about impressing other people or building yourself up. Matthew 23:12 says: “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbled himself will be exalted.”


If you’re a Christian God wants you to be humble, when it boils down to it the question is; do you want to humble yourself or do you want him to do it? I have tried it both ways and I like humbling myself better.


My horse gets home from Vegas tonight. I’m excited to see him. I am having some problems with one of my other horses. Cash has been giving me fits lately. Cash is probably the best horse I have ever owned in my life. He is 6 years old and he is the friendliest, most gentle kids horse you have ever seen. You can take him to a team roping and win on him. The kids can ride him in the playdays. I use him to rope bulls and pickup saddle broncs and sometimes barebacks on. He does anything you want with hesitation everytime.


I am going to leave you with some pics of cash, and I’ll tell you why we aren’t getting along next time.

This is Cash and Miss Rodeo a NFR Saddle Bronc horse.

This is Me, Cash, and Jacobs Crawley up north somewhere.

Colton and Cash at one of his youth ranch rodeos.




Quote of the Day:
From Mere Christianity by C S Lewis


"I now come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that they are bad-tempered, or that they cannot keep their heads about girls or drink, or even that they are cowards. I do not think I have ever heard anyone who was not a Christian accuse himself of this vice. And at the same time I have very seldom met anyone, who was not a Christian, who showed the slightest mercy to it in others. There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves. And the more we have it ourselves, the more we dislike it in others."



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