All we really want is just to be loved. This is what our hearts want.
I love my foal “Gracie” (“Pattis Belle”). She has a place in my heart. This position…..
Jim’s and my online dating photos:
Excerpt from My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz p. 14-15:
“A Sampling of Dating Stories
I had many dates from many states. My first date was with a haughty airline pilot…..
December 31, 2015: I am honoring My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz Dr. Jim Kennedy today by re-posting my facebook post from last year, December 31, 2014. This is all I can think of to do to keep honoring him and remembering him as the best thing that ever happened in my life. And frankly, it’s all…..
“A TIME TO WEEP AND A TIME TO LAUGH. A TIME TO MOURN AND A TIME TO DANCE.” ~Ecclesiastes 3:4~
It has been almost four years since I lost “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz,” Dr. Jim Kennedy.
Life can come at times with vengeance or with peace. I have decided to return to life with a zest for volunteering at two equine ministries.
At The Son and Reins Ranch (www.thesonandreinsranch.org) hurting youth can show love to a hurting horse.
I love my new life helping with rescue horses and troubled youth and equine-assisted sessions for military veterans. (http://thesonandreinsranch.yfc.net/ and www.combatveteranscowboyup.org). But this love goes much, much deeper.
I never thought I would make it through the severest of life storms. I wanted to give up many times. But God…..
Helping at Combat Veterans Cowboy Up
I have spent a wonderful spring and summer helping at two ranches that serve rescued horses, youth, and veterans. What have I learned since I lost “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz,” Jim Kennedy? Three words.
After 5 total joint replacements, loss of work, losing my one…..
It has been 2.5 years since “My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz,” Jim Kennedy, passed on. A time of grief convulsions, fighting not to slide into the grief pit, learning to take one hour, then one day, at a time, and ultimately to use the pain to…..
My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz
page 326
“How can I come out of all this and keep my faith? How can I live in 24/7 physical pain? And heartbreak pain? The bottom line I faced was, Am I going to trust God or not? Am I going to trust…..
3/29/2014
“Boaz,” the thirteen-year-old rescued thoroughbred horse, at the Son and Reins Ranch, says, “I have been fed, I have been groomed, the sun is warming my body, I feel safe and secure. I don’t have to worry about being a prey animal right this minute, so I’m going to lay down and enjoy…..
My Cowboy Knight, My Boaz p. 249 “My personal veterinarian told me that dogs with a broken pelvis are just put in a cage for six weeks to heal on their own. I pictured myself in a cage and that made me laugh too, even though it wasn’t funny. I think I…..
