I guess this old horse reminds me of me! I have so many flaws and I need second chances, and third chances and forth . . . In years, Jackie has given me 37 chances. In days, hours or minutes she has put up with me and all my failings so often, that even a calculator would short circuit and fry it’s brain counting the chances she has given me.

Like the wooden horse, I need a good base to stand on to make my marriage strong. That platform can only be found in God and His word. How often I have leaned to my own understanding and when the cats of this world, or my own flesh, sneeze, I fall, failing as a husband, a father and a Christian. Jackie has been there to help me “cowboy up” and get my feet back under me.