It has always been a dream of mine to own a working horse ranch. I recently took the
necessary steps to help that dream come true. I am now the proud owner of the roots for
that dream to reach reality. I would like to introduce everyone to two new females in my life, Shaasha Moniet and Precise Pride.
Shaasha is a 2-year-old registered straight Egyptian Arabian and Precise is an
18-month-old registered Tennessee Walker. Both are beautiful spirited mares with national champions in the pedigrees.
I have always admired the bloodlines of the Egyptian Arabians with their beautiful
confirmations, stamina, intelligence and spirited dispositions. The size and flashiness of the
Walkers’ bloodlines have also been attractive to me. With these two young ladies and God’s blessings a dream of mine is finally budding.
Ron Kervin
Writer/Author, Motivational Speaker
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I would like to invite you to join with me to wish my daughter Hillary a happy birthday. Hillary’s birthday is on June 26th. I think it is inappropriate to mention ages when you are dealing with females. I am not sure at what age that starts, but I am sure that erring on the side of caution is always appropriate. Happy birthday Baby; you are still my original little girl no matter how old you are.
Quote for the month:
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia
Scriptures for the month:
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God”
Romans 12:2
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It may be your sole purpose in life to serve as a warning for others.
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A few weeks ago I pulled off interstate 75 in north Florida to fill the gas tank in my truck. I was on my way back from south Florida where I had to drive to pick up Shaasha, my Arabian mare. I stood there filling my tank with gas that was just under $4.00 per gallon and my mood was not very pleasant. To that point in my two-day driving trip I was right at $500.00, just in fuel costs on the trip to pick Shaasha up. It was very disheartening and depressing to me, especially since I had just purchased a new Toyota Tundra in January of this year. When I am pulling a trailer with my Tundra, I am fortunate if I get 12 miles per gallon.
As I stood there watching my hard-earned money go down a rubber tube into my tank, I could not help but run a comparison through my mind. I contemplated the thought of how we got to this point. I contemplated the possibility of the fact that we could have avoided this catastrophe. Could we really have done things in the past that would have prevented us from having rising fuel cost at the rate of about one dollar per gallon per year? I dropped my crystal ball a few years ago and broke it so I can’t read the future anymore, but I can surely draw extrapolations. I can take a known fact and deduce the future events connected to it. We are now at $4.00 per gallon as of this newsletter. I assure you that by next summer, if not sooner we will be at $5.00 per gallon. I further extrapolate that we will go up at least $1.00 per gallon each year into our future. $10.00 per gallon is just a few years down the road for us. Is that not depressing? Could we have avoided it? Why yes, we could have avoided this mess we are in.
OK, if we could have avoided it, what should we have done to avoid it? Well, that is simple. When we began to build our society on a mechanized basis, we should have started out using a renewable energy source. Instead we built our mechanized society on a non-renewable fossil fuel base and now we are paying for our mistakes. Back in the 1800s when a man named Tesla was telling us and showing us how to tap into renewable energy such as hydrogen, solar and geological energy, folks laughed at him and ridiculed him. I encourage you to do some search on the inventor and scientist named Tesla.
It is sad that we could not listen to a genius like Tesla and built our economy and society on renewable energy sources. Now we all are paying for the mistakes of those before us. What makes it so hard to accept is the fact that most of us had no say in the decision. Now we are being crushed under rampant fuel prices due to a declining non-renewable source and greedy suppliers. It is even worse when you realize that prices will only get worse until we do make the switch to renewable energy sources. Oh, but how much will we have to bleed until that time arrives? Can we survive until then? You may be in my position and find your place much closer to the causality line than anticipated.
Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the tunnel for us. We do have the ability to switch over to a renewable energy source once enough people realize the mistake that has been made. It may take fuel prices doubling from where they are now, but I feel eventually enough people will get tired of throwing all their disposable income toward a hopeless cause and demand that the switch be made.
The situation we are in now with our energy source is really “hat in hand” with our spiritual life. We have a choice and have had a choice in the past regarding what base we can build our spiritual life upon. We have the choice to build our spiritual life on a non-renewable source or an abundant, endless and renewable source. We have the choice of building upon the world and manmade things, which are non renewable, limited and finite or we can build upon the word of God, which is renewable, endless and infinite.
I am afraid that there are many who have chosen incorrectly and have built their hopes and aspirations spiritually upon a source that will eventually bankrupt them. The world and worldly things will eventually demand a price greater than those that follow will be willing to pay. God tells us very clearly that we are a dual entity. We are made up of the fleshly being and the spiritual being. One decays and passes away and the other remains forever. The flesh will perish but the spirit will go on. You may read these words written in II Corinthians 4:16, “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”
Unlike our present situation with the energy crisis, we have a deadline for making a decision about what basis we build our spiritual life upon. There will be a time in our future when we face the cold hand of death where the price for building upon worldly things will be higher than we will want to pay. It will be the price of our eternal soul, lost and shut out of paradise with God. With which source are you fueling your spiritual being?
Perhaps we can all extrapolate a spiritual lesson from the dark and dismal energy crisis we are in today. May you make the right choice spiritually and may you survive financially until a renewable energy source can be made economically available to all of us.
June 2008 Newsletter