The Lone Prairie Blog

While working on some art projects recently, I had sermons running in the background. I don’t always catch everything but I suspect God gently whacks me upside the head when something comes on I need to hear. “People are educated beyond their intelligence,” the speaker said. 1 Wait. What? I pushed the progress bar back a bit to hear it again. “People are educated beyond their intelligence,” he said again, but this time I had a pencil ready to write some notes. He went on to d

Remember your starting point. Remember where you want to go. When my friend and I go hiking, we always take a photo of the starting point sign or map. If the phone battery dies it’s a moot point, but since most trails no longer offer paper trail maps, it’s just a way to know: Where you are. Where you are going. How far you have come. How far you have left to go. A reference point if it seems like you’ve been traveling too long. That there is an end somewhere. If you’re walkin

We all have a horse counter-part. From  The Black Stallion series, I learned, as a child, about furlongs and weighted saddles and Alec Ramsey. All things horse racing I loved. And I learned about the different kinds of horses. There are cold bloods, warm bloods, and hot bloods . The cold bloods get the job done, steady and faithful, without the flash. They take up a lot of space; they’re bulky and slow. They plod along in fields, pulling plows and wagons. If they’re lucky,