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Get Back On!

Kenny Winder was a cowboy through and through. He lived the life that so many dream of and loved it. 

How did his life in the saddle begin? He shared the following: 

“My father took me with him to an aunt’s house when I was maybe eight years old.  They lived rurally and had some horses.  Of course I asked if I could ride one…. I had to ride bareback and I rode off down the road alone.  This was my first horse ride.  I got along fine until I turned around to go back, then the horse broke into a gallop and then into running.  I had no idea of what to do except try to stay in the middle and on the horse.  

“When we turned the corner I was bouncing and sliding around and found myself turned and lying on my belly over the horse’s back.  The horse was now running for home.  I managed to get astride of the horse when he darted into the barrow pit and off the road and I ended up lying over the horses back again.  I couldn’t recover and I slid crashing to the ground.  My forehead was cut and blood was running down my face, but otherwise I was okay.”  

Kenny described that he managed to catch the horse and make it to a neighbors house, where they called his dad. 

After cleaning him up and patching him back together, they made to go home. Kenny asked his dad, “How are we going to get the horse home?”

It was at that critical moment that Kenny Winder learned his first, and perhaps most important lesson, about being a cowboy. His dad said, “You get back on and ride him home.”

He did and the lesson stood him well. He kept getting back on all his life. 

The Almighty has asked us to endure to the end. What does that mean? It means we get back up and try again every time we get bucked off and land hard. God bless you. 

Source: Experiences of Kenneth Winder.