Texas wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in the Church we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:
- Changing riders
- Buying a strong whip
- Trying a new bit or bridle
- Moving the horse to a new location
- Riding the horse for longer periods of time
- Saying things like, “This is the way we have always ridden this horse.”
- Appointing a committee to study the horse
- Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
- Increasing the standards for riding dead horses.
- Creating a test for measuring our riding ability
- Comparing the state of dead horses today
- Complaining about the state of dead horses today
- Coming up with new styles of riding dead horses
- Blaming the horse’s parents
- Tightening the cinch
- Passing legislation which declares that “this horse is not dead!”
- Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed
- Trying to resuscitate the dead horse
- Praying for the dead horse to be resurrected
- Convince a stranger that the dead horse is resting up for the next day’s work.
- Sell the dead horse to the stranger.
Author: Fr. Ed Gustafson in Green Valley, Az.
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