As you probably know, Betty and I volunteer at Galloping Grace Youth Ranch where kids can come and ride horses (and scoop poop) for free. The mission of GGYR is “to bring pure joy to children.” We enjoy it because we love both kids and horses.
Another activity we support in Corrales is the Ditch Pony Promenade. It’s a kid’s horse show – every thing from little bitties riding stick ponies all the way up to 16 and 18 year olds riding in English and Western classes. Betty helps with registration and I’m the official photographer. Again, kids and horses.
That’s where we are today so my reflection for today is very short…
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis (The Four Loves)
That’s a lot to chew on.
PS: I’ll have some pictures from Ditch Pony probably on Tuesday.
4 comments:
I read the "Four Loves" recently. It was a bit much to chew through. I remember that quote. Brilliant.
A great cause Dan and wonderful words from CS Lewis: "To love is to be vulnerable."
Hi, I found your blog by clicking next blog on the blogger tool bar. And I'm glad I did, I enjoyed reading your post, wonderful thoughts.
Read abit about what you offer kids and thought this might make ya smile.When our daughters hit the back talking know it all pre-teens I sat them down and explained that their father and I could only put up with so much. We would warn them when we reached our limit-but let them know the consquences in advance. We would find a farmer with plenty of what they were dishing to us and leave them there to shovel as much as the farmer needed shovelled and not a moment sooner.-we live in Alberta Canada so our threat carried some real weight. We never did reach that line but they knew it was drawn-LOL=I really believe it does the character good-I shovelled after my own horse growing up-our girls cats,dogs and guiena pigs.
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