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Date Posted: 00:41:11 01/12/03 Sun
Author: Cheri
Subject: Saturday's inspiration..
In reply to: Cheri 's message, "A New Week. Daily Inspiration's and Horse Fact's." on 23:30:01 01/06/03 Mon



A SPECIAL BLESSING

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Philippians 4:4-7 (NRSV)

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you."

- John 14:27 (NRSV)

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THIS was my second bout with kidney disease. After the first episode the previous year, I had been unable to work for several months. During that same period my elderly, widowed father had suffered two cardiac crises, which, I was convinced, were precipitated by stress and worry over my condition. I dreaded telling him that I was ill again.

Finally I told him of my relapse, praying that God would help him bear the news. Since my mother died three years earlier, his already failing health had declined. Without the joy of her love and companionship, living seemed to become a sad, weighty chore for him. But he told me he would request prayer for me at his church.

A few days later we talked, and his voice held a lightness I had not heard in several years. He had offered my name to his church family for prayer, and he also left the service with what he called "a special blessing." He described it as a peace, an assurance that God was in control. Not only was his burden for me lifted but a door to new life opened for him. Although he will always walk with an empty space beside him, grief is not his only partner now. Peace has joined him on his journey.


Prayer: Father, thank you that even in adversity you bring great,
unexpected blessings. Your peace removes our fears and anxieties as we rest in the hollow of your hand. Amen.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
God offers us peace as a companion on our journey.

-- Susan Parker King (Tennessee, U.S.A.)

PRAYER FOCUS: Widows and widowers
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[> Saturday's horse fact.. -- Cheri, 00:47:32 01/12/03 Sun


The Zipizzian..


FOUNDATION LINES..


The Kladrub and Lipizza stock were bred to the native Karst horses, and succeeding generations were crossed with the old Neapolitan breed and horses of Spanish descent obtained from Spain, Germany, and Denmark. The Kladrub stud produced heavy carriage horses. Riding horses and light carriage horses came from the Lipizza stud although breeding stock was exchanged between the studs. The Kladrub stud produced Maestoso and Favory, two of the foundation sires of today's Lipizzan. Of the sires used during the 18th and 19th centuries, only six established sire lines:

Conversano, black, a Neapolitan, born in 1767; Favory, dun, transferred from Kladrub, born in 1779; Maestoso, grey, a crossbred by a Neapolitan sire and out of a Spanish dam, transferred from Kladrub, born in 1819; Neapolitano, bay or brown, from another Neapolitan sire, born in 1790; Pluto, grey, of Spanish origin, from the Danish stud, born 1765; Siglavy, grey, an Arabian, born in 1810.

By the 1800's, there were no longer any original Spanish horses available, and Arabians were used to strengthen the lines. Of the seven Arabian stallions used, only Siglavy founded a separate dynasty. Two other stallion lines which did not find favor at the Lipizza stud were perpetuated at other studs within the boundaries of the Austrian empire.

The Tulipan (Croatia) and Incitato (Transylvanian-Hungarian) lines are still found in Yugoslavia, Hungary, and other eastern European countries as well as North America. In addition to the sire lines, 35 mares established dominant families which are recognized today. Each country established traditions in naming, branding, and otherwise identifying Lipizzans.


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