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.

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?

Sunny died at 20 years old. She had colic. She said goodbye to be at 1:37 in the morning with a nudge of her nose. She took three steps away from me and collapsed in death. The vet and I autopsied her to find out why. You and I will autopsy America to find out why?

It is more than a tragedy to have those sweet innocent children in Newtown CT murdered. It is a tragedy to have children anywhere in the world murdered. Murdered by guns, swords, bombs, land mines. Murdered by hunger or thirst or disease or injuries. Their souls murdered by oppression and racism and discrimination and poverty and lack of education and lack of freedom or opportunity. Anything that you and I would not want for our children, that we think would be brutal or unfair or unjust or cruel, we need to consider a tragedy of the same proportion as the slaying of innocent lambs in Connecticut.

America may be able to make huge steps forward in how it treats mentally ill youth that are prone to violence because of the tragedy at Newtown CT

America may be able to figure out a way to treat mentally ill adults who are prone to acts of violence.

Parts of our culture do a great deal of this damage. 95% of what we do every day we do without thinking about. It is what we do because of the culture we are raised in and live in.

Guns and violence. Is there any doubt that the unspeakable horrible violence and EVIL visited upon the children in the classrooms at
Sandy Hook elementary school was a reflection of what our entertainment industry provides us? Don’t we permit and watch that distorting and perverting entertainment in our homes through TV or the internet? In how many other ways does that “evil” culture infiltrate into our nation’s desired values and norms. Are we the enablers?
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If we don't help a mentally troubled or mentally ill person, we or our society may have to pay a bigger price. In Newtown, it was a cost too huge, too unrepayable. What price would it have been worth to have prevented it?

We need to be our brothers and sisters' keepers. We need to make sure that all of our children here in the United States are safe.

What about the innocent little children overseas? Do their parents not feel the same anguish, horror, soul destruction, when their innocent children are slaughtered in a 100 different ways.

There are things we can do here and abroad. Let's learn them and then do them, for God's sake.

Obama quoted Jesus, "Suffer the little children to come unto me." The children are important to Jesus and to us. We must take care of them so that they have a good air healthful start.

Making peace includes creating just societies where everyone has a fair chance to develop himself or herself, to reach his or her own potential, to follow his or her dreams and passions to create good and life and joy.

We have been asleep at the switch. We have followed too long and too much the desires of our own hearts. Can't we get together to do good together. Our children make our civilization. Let's work on making our children safe. Make as many of the children as possible mentally healthy and work to improve the mental health of all those who became damaged either through DNA, their genetics, or through their environment, traumatic events in their lives.

If we make our own society more peaceful, won't we help to eliminate insane violence like Newtown? If we help to make other societies satisfy the needs of their people better, won't they be more 0ezeful, and less likely to strive for a war for whatever reason?

Learn to make peace through creating a just society here and helping our neighbors overseas create just societies for themselves. Peace consider joining PeaceHorse. Please consider starting your own PeaceWorld around you r interests and passions.

A little oil pastel portraying children skating at the recreational rink in Helena. Montana. Far. They are far away from the troubles of the nation and the world, usually. The cancer of violence spreads and begins to infect all of us.

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.

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’t have new wars starting every week in the newspaper or old wars continuing.

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.

If you are not great yet, but you have been trying to be a great rider and it isn’t happening yet, this might be the answer to breaking that barrier or getting that insight you need.

However, I don’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.

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 Man’s Search for Meaning 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.

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.

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.

We will talk about that here, too. We can put a lot about that up on the pages here.

Don’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!

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.

The more you bring with you, the more we can create together.

We will create together what we need to create to make this world more peaceful.

We rode in the morning. We are having lunch at BoJangles Diner in Kalispell. Malts and burgers and fries. Breaking bread or sipping a malt together is a great way to build rapport.

There have been plenty of people in my life who have gone on to bigger and better things. I do not believe it is manipulative to want to maintain those relationships. There are plenty of poor powerless people who I try to keep as friends, too.

I try to maintain relationships with everyone.

You care about those other people. They will know if you care about them. They will listen to you if you care about them.
If someone is rational and not crazy, you will be able to influence him some. Better  some influence on him than none.
Could people or friends who knew Hitler or Stalin or Saddam Hussein have been able to modulate the intensity of those despots’ actions by being involved in those men’s lives and being involved at earlier stages?
It is worth a try. What made those men go off the deep end? Could it have been prevented by sane caring friends?

I think the US has an embassy in every country around the world (almost) and it is reasonable for those diplomats to know what is going on in that country.

How hard would it be for the American diplomats to offer to help?  “How can we help you?  How can we help you not treat each other unfairly, awfully, horribly, murderously?”

Of course, the US has been mean spirited and evil to some of its citizens and slaves and aliens.  BUT we are trying to get better, be better, be fairer, and even more so a land of opportunity for all residents  and an inspiration for all peoples of all lands.

Is it a question of the locals trying to raise everyone’s quality of life or is it a question of a few locals trying to get more for themselves at the expense of the other citizines and inhjabitants?

JFK said “A rising tide raises all ships.”  Isn’t that true of any country’s  sea of people.  Help everyone and you help yourself.

We are trying to teach one another how to ride. We threw in a little lunch for afterwards.

Because this website/blog/business summer school has so  many components, I will take on a smaller project first full time and allow PeaceHOrse to evolve more with YOUR HELP.

I would love to have individuals who have great or fun or compassionate or representative photos of horses and riders and/or peace makers or peace making contact me and send me their images with notes about what is going on in them.

Peace is going to come about because we study it and make it happen.  It is going to be a many of us project.  Each can throw in what we can that will be useful.  Photos, content, ideas, suggestions, skills, eventually participating directly in the school or recruiting participants or volunteers or sponsors or advertisers from around the world.

Whitey disagrees; he has the right to express his opinion and preferences.

If this beautiful body were in the way of the war makers in Gaza, it would be blown to hell.

Is it hopeless? NO!

Somehow, eventually, peace will come to the Holy Lands.  It might as well come now and not wait for tens and hundreds and thousands and 100,000′s of people on both side to be  terrorized, injured, maimed, and killed.  Would you want to live in either of those countries under the conditions that they have versus what we have here in the United States?

Let’s assume that all is needed is a better policy by the United States.

However, we are not omnipotent.  (t is possible that the two sides are mad, crazy, fools, imbeciles, so demented by their past that they cannot give up their normal abnormal behavior.  They have gotten into a pattern of attach and revenge and attack.

Is change possible?  Of course!

Not only do we need to have a great policy to help bring about a change in the way the “combatants” combat one another, but we need to help change their mindsets.

How can we do that?  How can we take two or more adversaries who seem to have developed ruts in their brains that cannot think of anything except murder and revenge?  Is it that bad.  No!

We need to try having adversaries ride together here, work together here, share here, forgive here.  Plan a common vision that is great for both.

There needs to be a way for the people of both sides, especially the more militant beliigerent ones, to try something else.  As Doctor Phil says, “How is that working for you?”

As a painfully honest PeaceHorse could say “How is that working for you , Israel?  How is that working for you, Palestine?  Gaziana?  Hamas?

We could encourage the “people” to demand peace.  Demonstrate for peace. Instead of celebrating the mangling of thirteen unlucky bus riders, couldn’t all the people demand that their leaders “STOP IT NOW!”

It isn’t one thing that will work.  It is many things done simultaneously over a length of time that will eventually bring about a cessation of hostilities and a lasting peace.

Let’s get started now so that fewer people and their lives will be destroyed.

Tune into PeaceHorse to find out what we, you and I and our friends and enemies, are going to do to  STOP IT and replace it with peace and justice.

It doesn’t have to be only through horsemanship that we can build bridges between enemies.  We can do it in any area which two people share as a common passion and love and interest.  But we are going to try it first with horsemanship.

“People get ready, there’s a new train acomin’.  Don’t need no ticket.  You just get on ‘board.”

Let’s learn to ride together and make peace together.