“the first lesson a horse teaches us is patience.”
Or at least it should be.
Patience isn’t something we are born with.
It’s something we learn, we cultivate, we practice.
It’s a way of being and doing.
It’s something to fail at and to try again.
Patience is something that shows up when we put others’ needs before our own.
When I work with a horse and put their feelings and body above my agenda, I have all the time in the world.
It isn’t learned in day…
It isn’t perfected in one year or two…
Patience is found and lost and found again.
It becomes easier with understanding and empathy.
It becomes harder when we expect something the horse can’t give in that moment.
Patience feels harder to find when time gets away from us.
I say patience is the first lesson horses teach us, but only if we are open to it.
We can only learn that lesson if we are ready.
No one can force us to slow down and listen.
Here’s to the horses who teach us and all the people who listen, ready to hear and learn and fail.
