08.25.10
Tucker the Mustang & Cindy Branham “The competition” Supreme Extreme Mustang Makeover 2010!
As I reflect back over the past three months I have allot of mixed emotions! Following Gods path for my life is always my goal; although I tend to lean on my own understandings some times and try to forge a different path on my own strength. The trail on my own is bumpy and hard work! So looking into the future after the SEMM is scary if I look towards the trail that is alone. Gods path in my eyes seems harder than the path I had in mind; but the reality is that any path that isn’t Gods direction is the wrong path and will just get me lost. When any of us day dream about the possibility of receiving a large amount of money, we see endless possibilities. So even though my commitment to this adventure had so much more to do with everything but money, the idea of winning it gave me hope to a brighter future.
I have done allot of pondering and soul searching to seek out Gods direction and look at the lessons learned from this adventure in my life. I realized that God needed to teach me how to really trust in him and make a better financial plan for my family that required me to work at making it work better than it has in the past. Being more responsible with the provisions he provides us on a daily basis. His plan for me was exactly what I told him I was willing to do. Make myself available to show His love to all around me and allow Him to use me for his service not my own. And coming out of this Makeover experience I have no Regrets which is a personal victory for me. I had a great time, enjoyed my husband, children, and the many freinds and family that came to Fort Worth to support Tucker and I. I didn’t allow the fears of failure or the pressure of the money ruin my experience. Trust and faith remains the two key elements that give me peace.
In the process of making over a wild horse into a trusting partner, the horse has to have an internal battle with himself to face his fears and trust a greater power to provide his needs and keep him safe. If the horse resists the gift of partnership and provisions his life becomes full of worries and hard work trying to succeed on his own. The day and moment he decides to let go of his fears and learn to trust is the first day in his life of faith in a new idea of what life may be all about. Trust comes from following that new faith and depending on that greater power in his life to renew his strength and help him find peace. The growing partnership starts with a step of faith and then builds into a trusting partnership! How parrallel that is to how God works in our lives. Gods amazing grace wipes away our mistakes and our past with the blood his son, Jesus Christ shed on the cross. The victory in his death is that he rose from the dead to lead us into an eternal life with him by our side here on earth and then us at his side in an eternity in heaven with Him! When we make the choice to ask forgivness for our past mistakes and believe and accept his gift to us, we then have a trusting leader to direct us on the straightest trails of life because he will be leading the way and will never forsake us!
Proverbs 3:5&6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not unto your own understandings, in all your ways acknowledge him and he shall make your trails straight!
Stay tuned for more Tucker & Joshua the mustangs blog as a weekly update and training tip for you to continue this path with us. Thank you so much for following Tuckers new life and for those of you that came to the competition, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support and giving me an audible message from God that we are winners in his eyes to! May God bless you and keep you!
Spend the SEMM Weekend with me go to the links below to view all four preliminary runs and the fianls run, including the judges results and the overwhelming crowd response!
Day One of the Competition! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qgkrfYpEw&feature=channel
Day Two and the Full Finals Run including the judges scores and the overwhelming crowd response! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aG_qXJqwU&feature=channel
Thanks again to Tucker Trail Saddles for there sponsorship of Tucker and my training program! Go to www.tuckersaddles.com to select your new saddle!!
Go to www.cindybranham.comto see how you can come and “Release the possibillities” in your horse! “With God all things are possible…”Luke 18:27
Lisa Wilcocks said,
August 25, 2010 at 9:58 am
I wasnt there, BUT Tucker did so well!, always on the bit and controlled and beautiful, ITS ONLY BEEN 100 Days judges, it takes a long time to get a horse collected like that, Im not sure why the points werent higher, BUT IT doesnt matter, Cindy and Tucker are winners in my book no matter what!