Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

From time to time when I was growing up I would go horseback riding with some friends and neighbors. When I was a kid we still watched a fair number of old westerns, so we thought people who rode horses were pretty cool. Then when I was 13 I was riding with the girl next door, Jaime, who loved horses and who was a far better rider than I was, when something startled the horse Jaime was riding and threw her to the ground. Jaime suffered a compound fracture of her arm -- the bone in her arm was rather gruesomely sticking out of her skin. It was the first time I had ever seen an injury like that, and the fact that Jaime was pretty dramatic about the whole thing didn't help. I did my best to stay calm and to act like everything was going to be fine, but the truth is that I was just a bit freaked out by the whole experience.