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		<title>No More Hurting People &#8211; Martin, a Boston Bombing Victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Carl Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You all saw it. A photograph of Martin in front of his church after taking his first communion. He was clutching a poster that he had made. It had the Alpha and the Omega symbols on it. God, from the beginning to the end. God in everything. God everywhere. Is God in hurting people. Martin &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://peacehorse.org/no-more-hurting-people-martin-a-boston-bombing-victim/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You all saw it.  A photograph of Martin in front of his church after taking his first communion.  He was clutching a poster that he had made. It had the Alpha and the Omega symbols on it.  God, from the beginning to the end.  God in everything.  God everywhere.</p>
<p>Is God in hurting people.  Martin knew. His poster had a message on it.  His message.  You didn&#8217;t have to be a grown up or from the USA or Chesnia in Russia to know its true: &#8220;No More Hurting People.&#8221;</p>
<p>If a little kid can be that smart, why can&#8217;t all of us, ALL of US?</p>
<p>We each need to stay on Martin&#8217;s path.  We each need to bring people who have been hurt back to the good path, the path of forgiveness and healing.  Were the two brothers from Chesnia hurt.  Must have been.  </p>
<p>Stop hurting people.  Parents, teachers, students, bosses, guardians, supervisors, prisoners, prison guards.  We have to stop hurting people so that they will not hurt other people.</p>
<p>Oh, horses.  Dogs, Cats. Let&#8217;s learn how to treat them and each other well, kindly, effectively, graciously.</p>
<p>Maybe we can figure out a way to make riding therapeutic for the men and women who have been hurt and are tempted to hurt others.  Horses can be healed from abuse, sometimes.  Can men and womnen who have been abused and hurt be healed from what they have experienced that has traumatized them and given them, they think, and excuse to pass it on?</p>
<p>Peace does start with each of us, in our relationships.  Be healed and whole.  Pass that on!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s ride together and discover how we are going to make peace one  person and one rider at a time.</p>
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		<title>Peace and Horseback Riding are both complicated and simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Carl Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is complicated. The principles are simple. Love one another. Keep your heels down. I am excited about being able to do this blog and website. I do not believe that you need to think that riding is easy or that making peace is easy. If it were so simple everyone would be a great &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="https://peacehorse.org/peace-and-horsemahsip-are-both-complicarted-and-simple/">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_768" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 1610px"><a href="http://peacehorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/P9080023.jpg"><img src="http://peacehorse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/P9080023.jpg" alt="" title="Whitey and Joy by the barn" width="1600" height="1200" class="size-full wp-image-768" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Whitey and Joy wait by the barn.  They have their creek for water, their field for grass, and a bucket of oats or so every day.  They have me to look out for them.  And I do.</p></div>Life is complicated.  The principles are simple.  Love one another.  Keep your heels down.</p>
<p>I am excited about being able to do this blog and website. I do not believe that you need to think that riding is easy or that making peace is easy.  If it were so simple everyone would be a great riders.If it were so easy, we wouldn&#8217;t have new wars starting every week in the newspaper or old wars continuing.</p>
<p>I do not intend to try to teach you how to be a great rider over the internet, through this blog/website.  In this website/blog you will see what can be done at PeaceHorse about your riding and why it might work better or differently than anything else you have ever tried.</p>
<p>If you are not great yet, but you have been trying to be a great rider and it isn&#8217;t happening yet, this might be the  answer to breaking that barrier or getting that insight you need.</p>
<p>However, I don&#8217;t expect you to come to PeaceHorse to be great.  I expect you to come here because you want to be better in may ways.  You want to honor your passion for horses, you want to share that passion with others who feel the same way that you do, and you want to do something worthwhile with that passion beyond just trotting around with your horse and your horsey friends.</p>
<p>You need to do something with your life that is meaningful.  Every human being who is adequately aware searches to give his or her life meaning. I believe we find meaning by loving. Victor Frankel in his book <strong>Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning</strong> stated that at the heart of his discovery while enduring hell in a concentration camp.  The world needs you caring about others and doing something with that caring.  AND you need the world so that you can love and care about others in it.</p>
<p>We are going to have you meet new people,  people from different cultures than yours.  You will care about them.  You will like them. You will want their lives to work better also.  You will want to try to help the people in their countries. Help them have peace and justice and equality and a fair opportunity.</p>
<p>But beside  wanting to have new and different friends for you to learn from and help in social community ways, I would like you to care about the suffering of others.  There is war.  We need to try to prevent it and end it.  There is also the suffering caused by hunger, and famine, and drought, and flood, and natural disasters, and injustice, and too few resources .or too few resources being shared.</p>
<p>We will talk about that here, too.  We can put a lot about that up on the pages here.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t expect this site to be simple.  The problems are complicated and the dreams are big.  It will take a lifetime just to understand some of it.But it is the most important thing you will ever do, to try to bring about a better world.  You will get to do it through your passion for horses!</p>
<p>You are expected to come here loaded for bear.  We are not going to do all the work for you.  You have to come with ideas and knowledge and skills that you have tried to develop.  </p>
<p>The more you bring with you, the more we can create together.</p>
<p>We will create together what we need to create to make this world more peaceful.</p>
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