Date: 7/8/04
Location: Whiteheads' village, Papua New Guinea
It is only the middle of the day, but I am up on my bed trying to rest. My mind, however, is of course going a mile a minute, reveling in the time it has to wander. I cannot help but think passionately about riding - of the feeling of cantering so slowly and smoothly it's as easy as breathing... of flying changes and canter pirohette steps executed as beautiful dance steps together in perfect balance. (Not that I have ever ridden that well!) How I long to ride again in Ukarumpa! Maybe to get on Scruples again, or jump with Firewood. But... I can't help but thank God that He has placed this love and passion in my very blood, even when I cannot ride. Today I feel that I will explode with joy just because the love and the passion exists inside me. We humans can so easily kill these loves/passions when the object of our love is absent... and yet it is so much better to relish in the very presense of love and longing - just to know that God created both the longing and that at which it is directed. I am so glad, too, that my wonderful friend, Tabitha, exists and that I can love her and on some blessed days talk to her for hours. God is so good for pouring His love and passion for abundant life inside of us!
This morning I also received another blessing. We finished fixing Jeremiah's guitar yesterday, and today, he came to get it. As a way to express "amamas" (joy/thanks), he brought me a bow, three arrows, and a bilum for the new strings and my efforts at fixing his guitar.
I wish I could go running...
Song of Songs 1:9-11 I liken you, my darling, to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh. Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels. We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver. - The verses God pointed out to me tonight, after I was in awe of His creation - horses - today. 
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