A Cowboys Prayer

As I look through my daily social media feeds this week it has been heavy.

Friends and families need our prayers for healing, saving, doctors making the right decisions and families preparing for possible loss.

We come together and pray for them deeply and send our love down the line.

Thoughts of sadness and fear flood our day as we wait for more information.
This got me thinking about how we fall short on the prayers until tragedy strikes.

Although our prayers are needed in times like these, they are also needed in the good times.

We are a rodeo community full of rural families out working and gathering cattle miles away from cell service and medical help.

Our brothers, uncles, husbands and fathers make a living on the back of bucking horses and bulls 8 seconds at a time.

Families are separated all summer long while rodeoing and their hearts hurt. Moms working long hours to provide for families.

Dad’s calving in the snow all alone.
It’s a tough life no matter how tough cut it.

We’re all doing our best to uphold the western tradition and raise our children to do the same for their generation, and that’s not an easy task.
So let’s pray for each other more.

Let’s pray for our rodeo community, our ranching families, our rodeo parents.

We all need support and love.

I’m overwhelmed with pride and gratitude that our western culture bands together and prays for one another,

that my heart could burst.  

We continue to pray and remain forever grateful to be surrounded by a community as the Western world leads.