b'Running the RaceGET AFTER 2024 LIKE YOU WANT TO WIN SOMETHING!By Betsy Lemairehowfastdouwannab@gmail.com, facebook.com/betsy.lemairenunn, instagram.com/betslemaire,Lemaire Barrel Horses: youtube.com/user/howfastdouwannabI thankful heart and knowing that the Lord saved yourend, His will is going to be done and He will use me stated to a buddy of mine yesterday that it might bebacon just one more time in this life can be a big thing.pretty funny to look back on the day when I had three head at the barrel race fromSome of us have fought to get back into a position the future. They all worked well but didn\'t clock a lick.where we are free to be us, live our lives, and to bein my journey on Earth. So for now I will try to be a Guess what though? It just may be thewhere the Lord wants us. I havedecent human and I will try to do the things He has put day that things start moving forwardlistened to a lot of naysayers andbefore me. and clicking in my world so I am reallynegativity for many years. I have thankful for yesterday.wanted nothing more than to justFrom here, don\'t let fear, guilt, shame, or regret reside be back to where I was 25 yearswithin you when it comes to the things you want to Yesterday was a day that I can say I hadago. Don\'t get me wrong, I wouldaccomplish. I am not saying to make this thing we do some good friends and family backingnever trade my kids for anythingan idol because we aren\'t supposed to. I am saying look me. Was I headed to Houston withand I do not regret things. I amat what the Father put in your hands. Use it, make it my A Team? No, I was just headed toso thankful for them. I am verygrow and multiply. Don\'t get a year down the road and Tanners (Dunns) to go work horsesblessed. Sometimes when you arebe another year older and regret that you didn\'t do what and maybe enter the jackpot. I won\'ta loyal hearted long hauler, as ayou knew you should have. This is for your personal life get into how my friends backed me butfriend called me the other day,or professional life. Go make a hand! Do the things you you can use your imagination. I wasyou have a tendency to questionhave told yourself you want to do since you were a kid. just really thankful to be there. Notthings in your life. You cannot letWho says you can\'t? Dang sure not me! Now go get after only do I appreciate that arena, thenegativity and bad attitude bleed2024 like you want to win something. Be blessed in the folks that own it, and the ones that putover into your life, goals, newnew year my friends. on the barrel race, I was just kind offriendships, or relationships. I get taking it all in as they haven\'t had one there in a while. that there can be medical things and reasons why we don\'t take a step in the direction that we have been I sat on my horse while the national anthem played.wanting to attain since we were small. Just remember Pattie Tanner prayed over us all and I got a little chokedwhen you get six months or a year down the road and up as I waited for them to call my name in the first drag.you look back at that little jackpot that your family and It may seem a bit silly to everyone else while we sit onfriends had to kick you in the pants to go to, that that our couch and watch the NFR this week but not to me. day may just have been the day that you got out of your I was thankful. I can remember another time I truly feltown dang way and took a step towards your goals.like this and it was probably about 1996 or 1997. I was at Scottsdale. I was up in the slack, it was raining, and itDon\'t let the people close to you tell you that those was a muddy mess. Most of the girls were pretty whinythings don\'t make any money. You do what God put and complaining about the rain and the mud. It wasn\'tin your heart. I know I write similarly on these things unsafe ground but it was just one of those deals wherebut I am saying don\'t go down without a fight. Do what things weren\'t as comfortable as we often expect them toyou have to do to fuel that fire and fan that flame. The be. I would ride by and they were all saying somethingLord put us all in certain positions to influence people negative. I wouldfor Him. I wrote in my journal a couple of days ago just grin and justthat everyone talks about out working someone else say, "Man, I am justto attain your dreams. I have worked at this my whole happy to be here,"life. Have I out worked some folks? Sure. Have there and literally I was.been days when I haven\'t out worked them? Absolutely. I had just gottenHave I made mistakes? Tons. Have I done some things out of a really badwell? You bet. But here\'s something I know for certain, marriage and backwhether it is training into the swing ofhorses, dogs or kids, things. I think Iwe are not going to do may have won theeverything perfect and rodeo that day.there are many means to Sometimes it\'s justan end, meaning many the attitude thatways to do a task. The you bring to theLord\'s grace and mercy table that savesin my life will take up the you. Having aslack for me, and in the LEMAIRE BARREL RACING & PET CAREBarrel Horse TrainingPet SittingDaily Chores928-231-6184howfastdouwannab@gmail.comArizonaRealCountry.com January 2024 31'