UPDATE: What do you want to do when you grow up?

OK, so several folks have called me out in regards to the last SpiritualHorseman.com post – Cooking Up Dreams – saying that I didn’t answer the question. The question in the post was: What do you want to do when you grow up? Well, this is the most specific I can get: I want to [...]

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Would you pull the switch?

What do you stand for? Now be careful when you answer. If you think… and stand, you will be met by resistance. Think about the death penalty for instance. Are you for it? We run in a pretty conservative circle. So, I would guess that most of the readers that know me and that read [...]

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Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday

The Sacrament of the Present. So, are we talkin’ about presents because Christmas is right around the corner? Nope. We’re talking about presence because Christmas is right around the corner. Today Fr. Ed mentioned something he called the Sacrament of the Present. You’ve heard high-school-kid-slang before. It changes almost weekly. Well, imagine high school slang, [...]

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Food For Thought

Today marked what the Catholic church calls the Solemnity of All Saints. Most folks just call it All Saints Day. Basically, it’s the celebration in honor of all the saints, both known and unknown. This begs the question, “Who are saints?” Fr. Ed retold a story today that includes the best answer I’ve ever heard. [...]

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God Sucks?

Sometimes life throws things at us that we aren’t even close to being ready for. They’re seemingly out of the blue, or left field, or nowhere… Or out of wherever life’s temptations, trials and tribulations come from. Mellow Yellow was two years old. He could turn around pretty good, he loved to stop and he [...]

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Perseverance Thursday

Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ~James 1:2-4 DAMMITT! I don’t want my faith tested! Not at what seems to be the expense of others. Nor will pretend to have a clue regarding why we are subjected to varying [...]

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Careful What You Wish For…

Most of the year gives me a chance to attend the early mass in town and get horses ridden in the evenings. Summer time changes that – especially in South Texas. Several of the horses are ridden in the morning and others are ridden in the evening. This allows RanchForeman to keep sort-of-normal business hours [...]

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Sacred Hearts

Well, the Little Fat Monsignor struck again. If you don’t know about the Little Fat Monsignor, read this post. Anyway, today over at the church-house we celebrated the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Most of you know the drill – it’s the religious devotion to the physical heart of Jesus as the representation [...]

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See the miraculous in the common

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Today is just another day. Surely you’ve all been there. . . You take a trip, celebrate an accomplishment, experience a loss, form a new relationship and guess what, life goes on. Be mindful of those days when [...]

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God so loved . . . Earth Day

Happy Earth Day! “For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten son . . .” The gospel from Today’s readings shares the most quoted bible verse of all time. John 3:16. What’s interesting is something that Fr. Ed shared this morning. It isn’t translated as “For God so loved man“; It’s “For [...]

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