Passed on Monday, November 13, 2006 I Should Have Known I should have known by the way he was dipped in bronze and gold that he was a special gift from God. I should have known that he would come here to remind me that what God does is Great, and Beautiful and Majestic. I should have known that to be in the presence of greatness would mean joy beyond my dreams, and then pain so deep at the loss. I should have known by the way he stepped so softly yet carried such a big presence that this is how the Lord walks in front of us. No obstacle too high. I should have known that he wasn't of this world - but like all horses, sent from God to remind us of the Beauty and the Strength and the Fragility of our own existence here. And I should have known that his life, like ours, exists on the heavenly plane and that his time here would be, brief, and fleeting. And as he figured out how to hop on three-legs and load himself into the ambulance facing fear and unbearable pain...because it was what he was asked to do. And as I sat begging and pleading, I knew that his was to show us beauty and grace, that the pain of this world was not for him. And the doctor turned to us with tears and said, "This horse is a champion!"

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