Participation – Peace Horse

No More Hurting People – Martin, a Boston Bombing Victim

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 knew. His poster had a message on it. His message. You didn’t have to be a grown up or from the USA or Chesnia in Russia to know its true: “No More Hurting People.”

If a little kid can be that smart, why can’t all of us, ALL of US?

We each need to stay on Martin’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.

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.

Oh, horses. Dogs, Cats. Let’s learn how to treat them and each other well, kindly, effectively, graciously.

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?

Peace does start with each of us, in our relationships. Be healed and whole. Pass that on!

Let’s ride together and discover how we are going to make peace one person and one rider at a time.

By Thomas Carl Schmidt on April 25, 2013 · Leave a comment

A New Year for a new international horseback riding school this summer in Montana

Is Happy New Year enough or do you have to put some muscle and some brain into it?

Do you want this year to be like the last one or would you like it to be better?

Equestrian and owner check out the snow covered arena

Our rider has been at school for a semester. She took Whitey out for a spin. No jumps, no dressage. Just a pleasant afternoon riding on her horse on the snow.

If you will let me know that you are interested in making a difference this NEW YEAR, lets get started!

We can start off by trying to make our society better.

I work at an ice skating rink for fun in the winter. I play hockey and teach skating and hockey puck shooting to the kids and adults who come to the recreational sessions for which I am the skate host.

I have ideas. Others have ideas as to how to improve it. Could we start off by assuming that the boss would like to make the program as good as possible with the resources he has been allocated.

It takes some tact, politeness, courtesy, understanding and it takes some good ideas. Plus, how about some listening. Can we put that together and then do it?

I’ll let you know how it turns out.

One small improvement by each of us will be a huge improvement overall.

Ponies need love AND RAIN. When Danielle calls her horses, dollar and Poco, they come running.

Danielle’s horses look forward to their riding mistress calling them. Danielle whistles and they come running. Dollar and Poco won’t be at the PeaceHorse international riding school this year, but we can have you meet some others who will be.

By Thomas Carl Schmidt on January 2, 2013 · Leave a comment

World Peace through friendships, caring, sharing, and Christ

It is Christmas eve here in Montana. The snow lays on the ground cool and white and fresh, not cruel. our family is skiing. I am typing, playing the piano and singing. Trying to get a little more centered for the day and the tomorrows.

Our Iraqi war veteran at church struggles with his life as do thousands of soldiers and 100,000′s of civilians.

What are we going to do?

“Du bis genoug” German for “You are enough.” You are enough to make the difference. No matter how you are, you are enough to make the difference.

Do not give up hope. Have all the hope you need to see the good and do it. To resist the evil and transform it.

Friday afternoon a fawn and her mother were eating from our bird feeder’s droppings. The fawn was very small, a late birth this summer. she will probably have a tough time making it through the winter. I will try to remember to put some grain out each evening on the ground for her and her mother. Who knows who will get it.

I cannot bare to have another child die, whether it be a fawn or a human, needlessly.

Nature has a system of creating extra so that the species won’t die out. This little fawn outside my window who stood her ground as I came up the sidewalk, may have to die in the cold and snow and lack of greens this winter. do our children have to die of hunger, or war, or terrorism, or shootings?

Can’t we raise our children so that they don’t have to grow up to be soldiers? Can’t we be good enough parents so that our kids don’t grow up to be shooters? If they are depressed and demented, can’t we recognize that and get them help, for their own sakes and for the safety of others?

We have a lot to do.

Would you pray with me? “Dear sweet God, please give us the knowledge of the good and the courage to do it. Make us believe that we are enough to be your hands and heart on this earth. Amen.”

Merry Christmas!

Tony the spaniel died at 11 months. A saint. Perfect, kind, good, obedient, loving. Why him?

By Thomas Carl Schmidt on December 24, 2012 · Leave a comment

Need You if it is going to happen

You never know when your support and encouragement will be just enough to make the effort succeed, get over the top. There are a thousand reasons for saying “yes.” Only one for saying “No. What I care about is more important than peace.”

Your help may be that extra energy or effort or component or idea that will make the difference.

Tell it to a marine, a wounded marine, a dead marine. Tell him or her why you can’t help. Rather tell him or her you are going to help because of what he or she has gone through for you.

Each animal in this picture has a place in the herd. They each contribute something..

By Thomas Carl Schmidt on November 23, 2012 · Leave a comment

Beginning to make a little progress with WordPress and content and images

Its has been about six months since I signed up with WordPress through my webmaster Paul Spade. I have built tons of cavaletti and jumps for the hunter jumper course where my horse is stabled I have spent several months painting elements of our house that the remodeling project required. I have met with Paul Spade twice to get started. Now I have stumbled upon how to make posts and to add content to pages. I have not yet learned how to add an item to the menu where I want it. If I can modify the menu, I write content for all the different pages I will need. Maybe I need to create the page and tell it where to put it in the menu and it will be done.

There should be a way to invite readers to make comments and submit content for pages. Are they supposed to be able to make posts on the blog?

I would like this website/blog to be an open book. The things that are most interesting and useful to the prospective participants are out there in the front, easy to see and find and open. I would like to include in this blog/website how this Business or Non-profit Organization is structured by areas of responsibility so that prospective participants can see what they could do and how that will fit into the bigger picture.

If you are interested in horsemanship, making peace, andh meeting people across the country and the world, please send in suggestions that you think will make the blog/website better as well as ideas for the entire entity PeaceHorse. Thank you. Sincerely, Tom Schmidt, Director

Tom and Joy successfully jumping a small log beyond a water hazard. Form doesn’t look embarrassing, does it?

By Thomas Carl Schmidt on June 27, 2012 · 1 Comment