Joyful Connection with All God's Creatures: Bull Rider Cody Nance and HIS Haven Ranch
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🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Whether our friends walk on two legs or four, connection gives meaning to our lives. God often uses these bonds to show how we can care for others, but what we don’t often realize is that those opportunities help us learn how to care for ourselves, too. Bull rider Cody Nance talks about how his faith and career blossomed through his family and through friends he met on the rodeo circuit. HIS Haven Ranch mentors Laurie Baer and Janice Larsen share how they serve kids who are hurting in their community through horse therapy by providing an additional support system to their lives, reminding us all how God's creatures, big and small, can bring joy to our lives.
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Interview Quotes:
“I've been able to be used on a platform like I've never imagined before, and I'm just thankful that God is allowing me to do that.” - Cody Nance
“I do believe that God saved me when I was young, but I believe I lost track of the most important thing, and that was being faithful in my love for Him and His worship.” - Cody Nance
"[When] I'm strapped to the back of a [2,000 lb. bull] jumping in the air and kicking . . . sometimes it gets a little wild. But He's always there and He's always taking care of me." - Cody Nance
“Our four-legged friends gave us a picture and a model of something that God could do on a greater level.” - Laurie Baer
“Our mission was to make a place that would empower and transform lives through healing and the Savior.” - Laurie Baer
“We pray that the perspective that [our riders] have will be an eternal perspective, so we'll use a horse and we use the Word of God. And they seem to work really well together.” - Laurie Baer
“It's not our job to judge the growth. It's not our job to judge the fruit. It's our job to sow the seed, to water the seed, and that means giving God's Word and dispensing it freely.” - Janice Larsen
“We're all at risk for something, if we're being honest with ourselves. We all have vulnerabilities.” - Laurie Baer
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| 0:00.0 | I guess the enemy's good at pulling a blindfold over your eyes and making life seem like it's okay |
| 0:08.4 | where you're at, but it wasn't. And so that's when I knew I needed the change and I knew I couldn't do it without him. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's guests share how their lives have been uniquely blessed by friendships with both humans and animals, and how these special |
| 0:25.2 | connections have helped them understand and strengthen their relationship with God. |
| 0:29.7 | Bull Rider Cody Nance and Lori Bear and Janice Larson of his haven ranch. |
| 0:35.0 | First up, Cody Nance has lived nearly his whole life at the rodeo |
| 0:39.0 | and is ranked to number 25 in the world for his skill as a bull rider. |
| 0:42.0 | He recounts how, in his younger years he |
| 0:45.4 | lost track of God but then found his way back to him after realizing how hard it was |
| 0:50.4 | to make life work without him. My name is Cody Nance. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm a father, I'm a husband, I'm a boy writer by profession. |
| 1:00.0 | And so where I grew up in Paris, Tennessee was a pretty small town and we didn't have a lot of cattle and I didn't rodeo, but my stepfather did. |
| 1:11.0 | He's the one that got me into rodeo and I used to team rope and got into riding bulls at about 14. |
| 1:19.0 | So that's what I've been doing ever since where I grew up at. |
| 1:22.0 | We trained a lot of horses though and |
| 1:23.7 | and messed around with a lot of horses. I think that helped me establish that |
| 1:27.5 | foundation. The first thing that during me to Bull Riding was my stepdad. He was my |
| 1:32.4 | hero when I was my stepdad. He was my hero. |
| 1:33.5 | When I was a little kid, I was two years old |
| 1:36.0 | when he and my mom met, and he rode bulls, |
| 1:39.6 | and I just thought that was the best thing ever. |
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