as clear as anything I've ever heard before. He said, no, put on your helmet, you could fall.

God's story? Your life. Unfolding short stories.

Each of us can picture how a day or a moment is supposed to go.

If for Susan, she had this beautiful idea for her 22nd birthday.

She was getting a new horse.

Hey, how about a sunset ride?

And her hair majestically flowing, like a slow motion moment that you'd see in a movie.

But right before any of that could happen, a voice

interrupted her and said, put on your helmet. To her credit, she immediately obeyed, and she set

aside that majestic image that she had in her mind for something a bit safer.

So it was my 22nd birthday and my husband asked me what I wanted for my

birthday. And I said, a horse. I had been riding horses for six weeks at the LA Equestering Center in Los Angeles, I had been riding Dressage.

Drosage is a special type of dance with the horse.

It's also a Olympic sport.

It's very technical. That was just six weeks of it. It's not Western. It's English writing. My life at that time was going great. I was young. I was pretty. I was married to a TV star, I was living the Hollywood dream.

But maybe a tiny bit full of myself because everything at a young age was happening to me and happening fast.

So my husband at the time was in Spokane, Washington,

with his friends Don and Lorna, and they were filming a little film. And he flew me there. And we brought our dogs,gey and duke, and we brought my saddle.

Because Lorna and Don lived on a ranch there in Spokane.

And so my husband says, what do you want for your birthday?

And I said a horse.

So we went to look at a horse

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