There are lessons all around us to teach us the true meaning of love.

If you will look closely at the eyes you can see that these two horses are not well. Hopefully they are getting better but picked up a disease from a new horse brought onto the farm. I believe the one in front is Man and the one at his rear is Rose. Man and Rose are brother and sister. Only they think they are Mother and daughter.

On Easter morning after church we came home to find the mother of these two standing in shock with her intestines hanging below her belly. Rose had been born the day before and somehow
M.J. had gored herself on a T post. She had to be put down and left behind a colt a little more than 24 hours old without a mother. The other mare in the pasture would have nothing to do with Rose. She would not take a bottle but we found she would drink from a bucket. So she was raised on a bucket for food but Man decided to adopt her as his and they were never apart. She followed him around trying to nurse and he gently nudged her away but never left her side.

Today they still are as a pair. They eat from the same bucket as they have since Rose was old enough to eat grain. And now they both have the illness and once more they are soul mates and never leave each other. I missed taking the shot where they were standing each having their head around the others necks. Man and Rose love in action. It is almost as though they have said to one another, "until death do us part."

There are lessons all around us to teach us the true meaning of love and I just shared one with you.