10/05/2026
Perfection.
A Church, Spouse Or Horse...
None of these things can be found in the perfect sense, but all of them can help make you as a person better. Now we probably have many things going through your mind after opening with a statement like that. Let me explain what I mean.
Let's start with Church, the pastor of our family church growing up would say; "If you find the perfect church, don't join it, because it won't be perfect anymore." If we did actually find something perfect, because we are not, it would suddenly now be imperfect as we bring into it our imperfections.
Let's move on to spouse. Although I have the, almost perfect one, there isn't such a thing really because no one is in fact, perfect. I know I'm not. However my wife has encouraged me in many ways and, without her support things likely would have turned out different. If we conduct ourselves with humility in an attempt to help eachother grow and reach our potential, a spouse can be invaluable.
Finally the horse, so many people seem to be looking for the perfect horse that has "it" all: color, breeding, confirmation, and training. But the truth is the horse can also teach us so much about ourselves and how to be a better person.
I often say that horses are not programmable, even if they have received "perfect" training they are going to make mistakes and will at times even regress.
So we need to understand that we need to keep working at improving our skills and when that happens we will keep moving our horses towards perfection.
As they are always moving towards improvement or regression, no method or trainer can download the code that keeps the horse right where they left them. We will make mistakes, that is inevitable, and that's okay.
Although one perfect man walked the earth, we killed him, other than Jesus, no one is perfect. My best advice is to keep working. Keep improving. You see, the horse has forgiven you and me for the mistakes we haven't even made yet. Think about that for a minute.
Pc Tracey Buyce Photography
