Baber - Amazing Grays, Amazing Grace

The day is unveiled as the morning sun slowly begins to rise above the black-green trees and deep purple hills, each new angle of sunlight creating an original canvas upon which Gods artwork appears to those who are awake to behold its glory. As dawn progresses, trees take on more distinct form, and the buildings and structures on the hills rise out of a flat landscape as if elevated from below.

Grass becomes a luxurious carpet of vibrant green as new sunlight reflects through droplets of morning dew. Vague forms of horses contentedly grazing become illuminated as the solar spotlight brings their once ghostly images into sharply focused view, allowing me to identify each one in turn. My eyes search for confirmation that my little herd has made it safely through another night. I see the tall, black mare, the powerful dun, and my two grays. All is well.

This is a day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. God is ever faithful, each morning bringing new life and opportunity to His family. I rested well last night, safe in the assurance that though I slept, He was awake and watching over me. With dawn, the responsibility for my horses passes from God to me, and I will be faithful to them until night returns and I pass the watch back to heaven.

Have you noticed how birds seem to sing with special joy in springtime? Their music accompanies my study as I pause again to look through my east window to the horses grazing beyond, grateful for yet another opportunity to walk with the Lord. My greatest blessing is being a child of God, knowing that He loves me beyond my capacity to comprehend. How can humans possibly grasp the unknowable truths of a relationship with God and with our Savior, Jesus Christ? What could possibly bridge the distance between heaven and earth and allow mere mortals a glimpse of eternity? It is grace.

The Holy Spirit gives each of Gods children a unique context that allows us to build a personal relationship with Him. For me, that context is horses. Twenty years training horses was my preparatory school, providing the key I needed to finally grasp what were previously only vague elements of my pursuit of relationship with God. The key to my relationship with God was provided by my amazing grays, Bo and Swizzle. I chose them, and they chose me. Working through my daily lessons with the Holy Spirit allows me to direct and deepen the bond I share with my grays, just as working with horses blesses me with a greater understanding of the absolute truth and promise of Gods Word.

The secret of life is relationship with God. The important question is not how, why, where, or when; the important question is Who? This book is a collection of concepts and stories, an opportunity to learn how horses allow us to find closer relationships with God. Woven into the fabric of the message is love, correction, wonderment, obedience, accountability, success, failure, birth, and death. But the heartbeat that gives each life is a relationship with the Lord.

Are you pursuing a right relationship to God? As a child of God, Amazing Grays, Amazing Grace will help you learn to communicate with the Spirit and experience correction and trial as your habit of task slowly changes to a habit of obedience. As your training progresses, you will begin to see the possibilities of relationship with the Lord that were but ghostly images in a flat landscape. Prepare for the dawn and experience the blessing that a relationship with God brings to your other relationships. Learning to abandon to God will teach you how to be a better parent, teacher, friend, minister, leader, and horse owner.

God has chosen you to be his child.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and willto the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves.

And you were also included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are Gods possessionto the praise of His glory.

Amazing grace, how sweet is the sound of my grays as they snuffle contentedly in their stalls, secure in the knowledge that I watch over them as He watches over me.