Introducing the Gospel According to a Horse

It's just  my personality that declares, "Everyone is entitled to my opinion!"  Each time I come across a blog post by someone addressing a difficult issue with their religion, I always want to respond with my own views on it.  I don't want to argue, I just feel that I want to put my opinion out there.  Because I'm so outspoken, I feel it's only fair to allow others the same right to their views.  I'm content with agreeing to disagree on most things.  This blog will be my space to express my thoughts on all things religious, and to respond to the various viewpoints I come across.  Because my life and career as a horse trainer and equine rehabilitation specialist have contributed so dramatically to my perspectives on spirituality, I've titled it the Gospel According to a Horse.  I often tell people that everything I know about God and my religion was taught to me by my animals, so it seemed a fitting title to the blog.  I imagine it will be a little regular devotional to draw my own and hopefully others' thoughts toward their Higher Power, however they identify with it.

My preferred flavor of religion is activity as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.  This group is also known as Mormons.  I was not raised with regular organized religion, but I was raised with good morals and I feel I've always been a spiritual person in that I was taught right and wrong and to be kind and a good person.  As a convert, I chose to be baptized into this faith and I officially became a member on my eighteenth birthday, my first decision as a legal adult.  When I teach the adults' Sunday school class at church I often declare, "everything I know about the gospel I learned from a horse".

"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.  Who knoweth not in all these things that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?  In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."  Job 12:7-10