At a week-long 4H camp in Hamburg, NY, teens are learning how to work with their mini horses.  I had the opportunity to travel there yesterday with Equine Behavioral Clinician, Dawn Samuelson.  It was interesting for me to observe the activities because it brought back a lot of memories from my childhood.  The smell of horse hair and barn dust stirred up the  long buried times of adventure in the back pasture. I felt an affinity to these kids with their miniature horses because my sister and I rode our ponies from sun-up to sun-down all summer long!  Dawn spent the day teaching the basics of observing the horse’s body language.  She said, “A horse speaks ‘horse.’  We speak ‘human.’  Because we’re speaking a different language, we need someone to translate!”

Isn’t that what Jesus did for us?  He came to translate the Father’s love in a way we could comprehend it.  And more than understanding, He wanted us to personally experience it! 

Now that’s better than horse sense!

Find out more about Dawn’s work at www.dawnscoat.com