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Where Wounded Spirits Run Free

Follow a horse where no one else can tread, through the minefield of pain that surrounds a broken child’s soul. From a mistreated horse to an emotionally starved child and back again, a torrent of love revives their barren places.

In the presence of unconditional love, a mute girl speaks for the first time. A defiant teenager teaches a horse to trust again...and opens his own heart to love. A rescued horse gives a dying man his last wish. A battered girl finds love and protection in the friendship of a battered horse...

Come visit a place where the impossible flourishes, where dreams survive the inferno of reality—a place where hope rises.]]> 113340 4.33 184 66 2003 407282 1590526554 9781590526552 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174495506m/407282.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174495506s/407282.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407282.Bridge_Called_Hope_Stories_of_Triumph_from_the_Ranch_of_Rescued_Dreams 4.51 51 Cross Over Troubled Waters

Hope is like the stars—always there, yet shining brightest in the blackest of nights. It is like the dawn, always rising anew. Hope is for everyone, and that includes you. This collection of more than twenty true stories from a ranch of rescued dreams unveils the heart of true strength and the character of genuine courage. Experience for yourself the kind of love and hope that change a person from the inside out. Because sometimes, just believing in someone is enough for them to start believing in themselves. It’s the galvanizing truth that no matter how deep your pain…God’s love exceeds it still.

Sometimes, just believing in someone

is enough for them to start

believing in themselves…



Without raising his eyes to look at me, in a voice barely clearing the horizon of a whisper, he said, “I know you don’t love me… You just say that ’cuz you’re an adult and it’s kinda like your job. But I know you don’t really love me.”

Suffering and blessing balance on the same high wire, each giving stability and depth to the other. The one that we feel the most…is ultimately the one that we give the most.

It was her eyes that gave her away. The conflict of her mortal illness versus her will raged behind them. Her body shouted, “I’m sick and it’s getting harder and harder to do the things I love!” while her indomitable will shouted back, “Yeah, but I’m just a little kid, and little kids should get to ride horses!”

What a relief it is when we begin to understand that it is within our hardships that truth is elevated from our hearts to our heads.

“During the darkest days I’d ever known, I was introduced to the unconditional love of a little horse and a merciful God, and my life has never been the same,” says author Kim Meeder . And her book proves that hope is not only for us to keep…but to give.

“Stirring, encouraging, and inspirational, Bridge Called Hope reminds us that hope is heaven sent for everyone, and that we, too, can make a positive difference in others’ lives."

Eric Close

Actor



“Kim Meeder vibrantly shares—and lives—an amazing story of hope and restoration. A triumph of recovery for wounded hearts!”

Louie Giglio

Director, Passion Conferences, and bestselling author

Story Behind the Book

“I was moved to write Hope Rising and Bridge Called Hope because, when I needed it the most, someone shared hope with me and it saved my life. During the darkest days I’d ever known, I was introduced to the unconditional love of a little horse and a merciful God, and my life has never been the same. Everything in our life is about choices. We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control how we choose to feel about them. The pain that we feel in this life is certain. What is equally certain is how we choose to feel about the pain. It can destroy us—or it can define us. The choice is uniquely ours.” —Kim Meeder]]> 113340 4.33 184 66 2006 7060657 1601422806 9781601422804 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7060657-blind-hope 0.0 0 113340 4.33 184 66 3142803 0.0 0 0 2010 6484145 9780739472057 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6484145-bridge-called-hope 0.0 0 113340 4.33 184 66 2006 1971447 3894379871 9783894379872 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191103579m/1971447.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191103579s/1971447.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1971447.Engel_mit_vier_Hufen_Geschichte_und_Schicksale_von_der_Farm_der_Hoffnung 0.0 0 Lesen Sie zum Beispiel von Jessica, die von einer kleinen Stute aus dem Gefängnis des Schweigens geholt wird. Oder von Mason, dem kleinen Rebellen, der durch die Pflege eines Pferdes lernt, sich zu öffnen. Oder von Shelley, die, solange sie auf dem Rücken eines Pferdes sitzt, ihre Blindheit vergessen kann und das Gefühl des Fliegens erleben darf.

"Kim Meeder has an unusual mission: She gets ill-treated horses to herself on the Crystal Peak's ranch. There she maintains the animals healthy and brings together them with children who likewise already had to get through a lot of grief in her life. By the common time with the " angels on four hoofs " the children win back the long missing feeling of love and security and find new joy of life again.
Read, for example, from Jessica who is got by a small mare from the prison of the silence. Or from Mason, the small rebel who learns by the care of a horse to open. Or from Shelley who, as long as she sits on the back of a horse, her blindness can forget and may experience the feeling of the aviation."]]> 113340 4.33 184 66 2005