The Yearning for Harmony

       Riding in the big field, on a mare that just 4 months ago was nearly uncontrollable, I drop the reins.  Guiding my mount into figure eights and stops and various turns, simply with seat and legs, I decide for something new.  We proceed to work into a trot and then a canter, without ANY use of the reins.  As we fly through various turns, something rings so RIGHT in my spirit. 

       Harmony and Unity has always been something that my innermost person yearns for and fights for since I was very little.  And as I rode in amazing harmony with this very powerful creature, I realized that this yearning for a perfect harmony and unity, is not some character flaw or sensitivity of mine, but a carefully placed spot in my heart that mirrors my Creator's.  God's whole character strives for unity, from the "trinity" to His guidance for His children. 
        And a new revelation and motivation has entered my heart.  Truth and correction that can come in a perfect love that does not break this unity.  So often when God corrects me, I break away seeing it in a perspective of earthly correction that brings shame.  I run from truth because in my mind, truth means abandonment and rejection.  But just as I have worked to teach the mare I ride that my correction does not mean pain and fear, God is showing me that harmony and unity CAN continue, uninterrupted, even through His correction.
         But knowing ABOUT this, and experiencing it is two things.  The mare had to EXPERIENCE my corrections before truly being transformed.  God is working to give me EXPERIENCE in His perfect love and refinement.  It isn't comfortable and I've been running from it.  But through my ride God spoke to that part of my spirit that longs for the perfect harmony and showed that as my Daddy in heaven, His corrections only exist to bring me closer to Him and into that Harmony.