My whole life I have just craved animals. They bring sooooo much joy to me and they were always there for me when I needed them. They never hurt me like people did or if they did it wasn’t on purpose. They were my saving grace. But it was horses that had something soooo very very special. I felt like everything was right with the world when I was on them. I had a dream for so long of rescuing horses and then helping kids who had been in bad situations like I had. It was in 2006 that I found out about crystal peaks and went for one of their information clinics on how to run a ranch like this. But I had no idea that the LORD would speak to me in such a big way that time. I was feeling so hopeless at that time as I was in a very abusive marriage that had prity much taken everything away from me and where I wasn’t even allowed to worship GOD in the ways I wanted or needed to. I prayed the whole way there that GOD would show me how to make my life better. Well this is what he showed me.......
OK so you are thinking that looks like a skinny old horse with a bunch of paint on him and that is exactly what it is!!!!! But no he is even more than that. This is JOB, he was of course named after job from the bible and that is because he had been through such terrible things. But on one of the breaks I was leaning on the fence watching all the horses, crying as I just felt so terrible I was praying GOD please talk to me, please say anything...and at that very moment from the bottom of the pasture this broken, boney horse who normally slowly, and achily made his way around the pasture looked up at me and ran to me at the fence. He came right up and put his nose in my face. I started to pet him and at that moment on his neck plain as day and spoke right from the LORD was the word HOPE.
As you can imagine immediately broke down crying and job just stayed and let me cry my tears all over his beautiful dusty face. It was then I knew GOD was always with me. I held that day sooooo dear to me and lately I have let things fade that memory and I won’t do that again!!!I am not sure what the LORD has for me. I hope it would be to work at or run a rescue program and to change lives but I just know I want my life to be about him. I want to spend everyday of my life seeing GOD work in others and see people come to him and be saved. I don’t just want my life to be about money and things. I don’t want to die wishing I had done more for him and others. I am going to be praying fervently about this. I want more than anything for my life to change for him in big ways!!!!
Here are the links for the broadcast if anyone is interested and the crystal peaks website. They are amazing, humble people who are truly devoted to the LORD and helping others. Amazing story of what they have done through the LORD!!!
http://www.crystalpeaksyouthranch.org/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/20/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-i/
http://www.myfamilytalk.com/index.php/2010/07/21/crystal-peaks-youth-ranch-ii/
