The outside of a horse does good for the
inside of a man.
~ Winston Churchill
One day I found a horse running free near our home. I jumped on him and got him back on the road. Whenever he strayed from the road, I guided him back. Many miles from where we started, he turned into a farm. The farmer said, “That’s my horse. How did you know he belonged here?”
“I didn’t know,” I replied. “The horse knew. All I did was keep him on the road.”
The horse has an intuitive wisdom and follows it.
Another time I tried to keep a horse I was riding from going under a tree. I stood up in the saddle and pulled with all my might on the reins, but the horse won and a branch of the tree knocked me out of the saddle. The horse left and I waited. I knew he would go back to the barn and that people would come looking for me.
Sometimes we have guides and teachers that help keep us on the path. At other times, people and events lead us astray. But ultimately we all need to live like the horse and know our own way home.
Where is your home? If you were a horse and someone let go of your reins, where would you head?
