“Sacrificing her own safety and comfort, a broken young woman lay down in the snow, side by side with a broken young horse.” -Kim Meeder
Kim Meeder tells a story about a young girl and a young horse in her book A Bridge Called Hope. Earlier in the day Kim got the call about a place where some horses were starving. When she gets there, she and her rescue team of girls meet and make friends with the owner. The owner decides to show off her "babies" to the group. As the owner goes on and on about her future plans for the horses (even though they are starving) the group of girls and Kim assess the horses conditions. The group is able to convince the owner to sell the worst of them, which was a little 2 year old that looked like she may be but a few months old.
They do what they can and get the little filly by buying her from the women that is the owner. By the time that they get the tiny filly back to Kim's ranch, she is exhausted and (after a quick bite of food and lots of water) she falls asleep in the snow. It seemed that she was quite lonely.
One of the girls that had gone with Kim on the rescue mission had picked up on the loneliness of the filly almost immediately. She was able to pick up on the horses feelings because she herself was lonely and needed a friend. As the quote said she laid down beside the horse. In the time that the girl and horse laid next to each other the horse began to twitch with dreams. In this moment the girl realized that it was time for her to also dream once again and began to heel her loneliness.
In the end both the girl and the horse were healed. I identified with the story because it reminded me of when I met Sanny and how she helped me to begin to dream that life could be better. She helped me to see that a good friend is better than being alone.
They do what they can and get the little filly by buying her from the women that is the owner. By the time that they get the tiny filly back to Kim's ranch, she is exhausted and (after a quick bite of food and lots of water) she falls asleep in the snow. It seemed that she was quite lonely.
One of the girls that had gone with Kim on the rescue mission had picked up on the loneliness of the filly almost immediately. She was able to pick up on the horses feelings because she herself was lonely and needed a friend. As the quote said she laid down beside the horse. In the time that the girl and horse laid next to each other the horse began to twitch with dreams. In this moment the girl realized that it was time for her to also dream once again and began to heel her loneliness.
In the end both the girl and the horse were healed. I identified with the story because it reminded me of when I met Sanny and how she helped me to begin to dream that life could be better. She helped me to see that a good friend is better than being alone.
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