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Date Posted: 17:40:14 02/20/03 Thu
Author: Cheri
Subject: Thursday's horse fact..
In reply to: Cheri 's message, "A New Week. Daily Inspirations and Horse Facts.." on 18:52:16 02/17/03 Mon



Shaping Up Your Overweight Horse


Part 1 ..


When preparing a horse for athletic events and sporting activities, whatever the discipline or level of difficulty, an important consideration is finding the horse's "ideal" body weight. This concept is well recognized in human athletics. For weight-bearing competitive sports like racewalking, running, and cross-country skiing, the amount of energy required to walk, run, or ski at any given speed is directly related to body weight. The higher the body weight, the greater the amount of energy required to move the body.

On the other hand, for individuals who are somewhat overweight, a reduction in body mass will provide a competitive advantage. For those athletes, a reasonable approach to enhance performance is a moderate reduction in body mass, particularly fat mass. Of course, it always is possible to get too much of a good thing--excessive loss of body weight actually can decrease performance ability because of loss of lean body mass (particularly muscle) and a lack of energy reserves. Thus, there is an "ideal" body weight and body composition (the relative quantities of lean and fat mass).

Tomorrows fact .. What about horses?

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[> Friday's inspiration.. -- Cheri, 16:04:52 02/21/03 Fri



ENGRAVED ON GOD'S HANDS

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Isaiah 49:13-16 (NRSV)

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing!
For the LORD has comforted his people,
and will have compassion on his suffering ones.
But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me."
Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

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The LORD says, "See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." -- Isaiah 49:16 (NIV)

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BUSY adults are not the only ones who feel the world's pressures. As I watched my fourth grader sitting hunched over her science notes at the breakfast table, I asked myself, What can I do to relieve her stress and show her my love? An answer popped into my head, and I reached for her pen and her hand. "This is to remind you that I'm thinking of you," I told Sarah, as I drew a smiling sun on the back of her palm. "When you see this sun smiling up at you, remember that I'll always love you, no matter how you do on a test." Sarah's wrinkled brow relaxed, and she gave me a hug.

I also struggle with life's pressures. I sit hunched over my to-do list and constantly compare myself to other people. Yet in today's passage Isaiah reminds me that God has engraved me - me! - on the palms of his hands. No matter how I measure by human standards, no matter how I do on any test the world gives me, God will always love me with an everlasting love far greater than I can understand. When I remember, as I go about my daily life, how much my God cares for me, my wrinkled brow can relax and I too can bask in my Parent's love.


Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for your steadfast love. Help us to
remember that we are all your children, that you love and accept each one of us. Amen.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God always loves us, no matter how we do on our tests.

-- Rebecca S. Ramsey (Puy de Dome, France)

PRAYER FOCUS: Children feeling pressured
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