b'Running the RaceGRACE ISN\'T JUST AT DINNERBy Betsy Lemairehowfastdouwannab@gmail.com, facebook.com/betsy.lemairenunn, instagram.com/betslemaire,Lemaire Barrel Horses: youtube.com/user/howfastdouwannabW ow, my life has been athat no one else plays with? Do you show them to embrace whirlwind lately! Everyonethe special needs kids and the underdogs? When someone has shown back up inis hurt or has a baby do you bring them a meal? Did you Wickenburg, the weather is beautiful and it \'tis a season ofteach them to stand up to the bully? When they got older truly changing and moving forward. How is your worlddid you have them bring home the kids that are depressed this winter? How is it this minute? I tell ya we thought webecause their parents are getting a divorce? Did they see were headed in a good direction but weyou feed the hungry? Did they pray have had a couple road blocks. Such iswith you over the homeless and the life, huh? Or is it? Have you ever thoughtlost? Did you take them to church? about the word grace? How aboutDid you try to have them in a goodIf we as parents do our jobs then hopefully the Lord takes compassion? Empathy? Kindness? Theseeducational environment? Did youup the slack for us. Never let things like this go on. If you are all things that are taught in the Goodteach them about their health andare a teacher, a coach, in leadership, or by golly just in your Book and things most of us have taughtwhat boundaries are? Did you tellown household step in and create a boundary line. Stand. our kids. them good job when they succeededStand up for one another. Be who you say you are. You can but instill a sense of humility. Thesebe a Christian and turn the other cheek when you are strong For me, these are things that I taughtare all things I have been ponderingin the Lord but when you see or hear something going on them when they were little bitty. I wouldas I know we all struggle in ourand someone is isolated and has been made an outcast. Do say to Lilly Grace, what is the fruit of theparenting but there are things thatnot let it continue to go on. Spirit? When she was three years old shewe have to take responsibility for would tell me, "Love, joy, peace, patience,in the next generation. As we moveEveryone can change. The Lord has given everyone an meekness, kindness, goodness, and self-control." I taughtand grow in ourselves our life is not all about us. It\'s notinnate sense of right or wrong. Are we ever going to be them these because they are in the Bible and are thingsalways about winning a barrel race or a roping. What areperfect? Nope! We are all going to mess up over and over that I wanted in them. So, from there what does a parentwe teaching our children? What are they seeing us do on ain this life. Every day get up and do your best. Ask for help do to teach that to a little person? When they show up indaily basis? Let me tell you it\'s never too late. if you need it. Be the help when it\'s needed. Love on people this world they are as awesome and as beautiful as they canso hard that when you are gone they remember that about be but let\'s be honest, they have a sinful nature from theTell the kids no when they are little. This is all going toyou and be that person for kids that aren\'t yours as well. get-go. They want what they want and they want it now.carry on into their adult life. We all need self-control. (ThisLet\'s remember we all love to rodeo, rope, and run barrels We have to teach them while loving them that they do notis the last fruit of the Spirit). Teach them how to love in howbut let\'s try to think about who we say we are. I am not rule the universe from their crib, car seat, or grocery cart. you talk to them and treat them. (Speak respectfully, speakwhere I want to be but my family and I are giving it a good no you are not going to have that candy, and no you are notlife and love into them). Teach them compassion. (Treatshot. Let\'s walk this walk and not just talk it. Love you all. going to throw a fit. There was always a very loose schedulesomeone how you want to be treated). Teach them empathy.Remember the reason for the season. Merry Christmas! of when we ate, slept, and played. They all slept through(Help them realize and feel how someone else feels). the night. All three sat in a high chair and ate their dinner. When we went to the grocery store (yes all at once).theyIf someone doesn\'t have compassion or isn\'t a sensitive had pretty decent manners and no they didn\'t show up thatperson, lacks grace, and has zero empathy they are going way. It was taught to them and they witnessed it. Yes ma\'am,to have a very hard go at life. I have had some time to no ma\'am etc.My point is that we have to teach them grace,reflect on things lately. Folks that lack in this area go from compassion, empathy, love, and kindness. How do we dorelationship to relationship because they may seem like a that? By being a good example but also by correcting themunicorn at first but then they reveal themselves because in a loving way. they cant keep up that facade. It\'s a prison for them. I liken it to a coyote pup. His mom teaches him to hunt and kill Do they see youto eat by ganging up on something to kill it. they tear that rewarding the waiterprey apart. They think that\'s the only way they can survive. that really wasn\'tLike a person who to tear someone else apart to survive that great with abecause that\'s what their parents taught them. When you good tip? Are youput that same pup with a person, she feeds him, makes him being kind andher dog, and she loves him. He becomes her best friend. He respectful to them?becomes loyal. Likewise, a good mare will teach a colt how Do you call the guyto be a good horse as well. that is dressed in girl\'s clothing atThere are many people Whole Foods that\'sin this world who have checking you outsuccumbed to the evil wiles "dear" and are youof a bully in their lives kind to him? Doand taken their own lives you teach them tobecause of it. These things play with the kidsshould never happen. EVER. LEMAIRE BARREL RACING & PET CAREBarrel Horse TrainingPet SittingDaily Chores928-231-6184howfastdouwannab@gmail.comArizonaRealCountry.com December 2023 31'