You know, I was just thinking about this the other day. I was thinking about how we complain about the cost of gas, and yet, once you’ve put the gas in your car, besides a few routine maintenance things from time to time, the car just sits there and then goes wherever you want.

But with a horse, you’d have to be taking care of it constantly, feeding it hay … the cost of gas, I think, pales in comparison with the amount of time if you clocked it to take care of a horse. Not that taking care of a horse is not worth it, mind you, but thinking of the horse helps us to appreciate how good we have it.

On the other hand, a horse does allow you to go off road, as you put it, which most cars do not.

Still, though, the comparison is good. Gosh, if I treated a horse with as much negligence as I’ve treated some cars, I’d be lucky if the horse were still alive. Some lessons for taking care of that which is loyal to us!