Behind The Barn Door

January 2023

I have always followed a mantra "Keep Moving Forward". When I was a young lad (comes from my Scottish heritage) I heard someone say "If you're waiting on me you're backing up!" and I liked that saying. Another learning experience was that if I was leading a horse and showed any lack of confidence in where I was going, my horse would stop and or back up. I see similar examples in peoples lives. They stay where they are too long and have difficulty starting up again. I'm not talking about where they live "per se" (though that can limit possibilities, it doesn't "have to"), but mentally or emotionally. Sometimes a horse (or buffalo, or other animal) will "hunker down" behind a shelter until a storm passes. But, they don't stay there. They "move forward" looking for that next field of grass, drink of clear, cool lake water and safe places to have their young.

Humans have come through one of those storms these past 3 years. Remnants of that storm may remain, but the "herd" is moving on. Come on with us, because if you are waiting, you're backing up.

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