"What do you take for granted?"

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Last month, our family took a couple of our horses to a fall festival to help a group raise money to put a new roof on their facility. Moms and Dads gave a donation and in exchange their child got to ride on one of our horses.

Of course we led the horses around in a large circle so basically the children just sat on the horse. We ride Western saddle so most of the kids had a death-grip on the horn while we walked. They just weren’t accustomed to riding.

I watched every single one of those children. As we put them up on the horse, their eyes grew really large, and wide open. Then just as soon as they were seated, every single one of them started smiling and their eyes lit up.

As I walked them around, I thought to myself, "Our family can ride these horses any day of the week we choose. These kids can’t. I guess we take riding a horse for granted."

What do you take for granted? What is there that you do or can do that others can’t but want to? Thank God today for that activity—large or small—as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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