A Horse Called Bear Page #4

- You haven't been out here in some time.

- You're right, it's been a while.

- Good seeing you here.

How about you and I go up

to the house for a coffee?

- No I gotta go.

Gloria's expecting me.

- OK.

Promise me you'll be back soon.

- Why'd you let Bear get sold anyway?

- What?

- You were supposed to

look out for him for Sara!

Now he's somebody else's horse!

- That was Ethan's choice.

He was the owner, you know that.

- It isn't right I tell ya!

You should'a done something!

(engine revving)

- Hey, how's it going?

- Hey you wanna jump up and ride?

- No, I've got work to do.

- Come on, seriously?

You can't live on a horse

ranch and never ride.

- All right, but only if

you give me one of those

horse riding lessons, I

hear you're a great teacher.

- Teacher's only as good

as her students make her.

- Then I will leave you

with a clean record.

- She'll teach him, wait and see.

- You're doing very well.

- Not nearly as good as you though,

miss horse rider.

- No I'm serious, you're

a very good rider.

- Thanks, beginning to see

why you like horses so much.

- See, what'd I tell ya?

- That's the story of the Good Samaritan.

Now who remembers our

scripture verse from last time?

- I do, I do!

- OK, Katelyn, since

you're so enthusiastic.

- It's John 15:
12, "my command is this,

"love each other as I have loved you."

- That's right!

Now how are you all doing

with the golden rule?

Does anyone have anything

they want to share?

- We invited the girl that

was mean to us to our party.

- How'd it go?

- She came but she didn't

want to play with us.

- We tried to befriend her.

- Well do you think there's any other way

you could reach out to her?

- What do you mean?

- Maybe you could pray for her?

- We still do at night.

(low chatting)

- Looking good out there Katelyn!

- Good horse.

- Way to go.

- Looking good Katelyn.

- Do you like working here?

- Yeah it's pretty good.

By the way, I'm sorry I didn't say goodbye

before I left the other day.

- That's OK.

- Hey.

- Yeah?

- You want to bring some of

your new drawings next time?

- OK.

- Yeah I could give you

a couple more pointers.

- I'm entering a drawing

contest, so that'd be great.

- Cool!

(overlapping chatting)

- Hey Allison, you wanna come ride now?

- No I don't think so.

- Are you sure?

- Don't be afraid.

- You can do it honey.

It's all right.

- No, I really think I

should wait until I'm seven.

- OK, maybe another day.

- That's OK sweetie,

you got plenty of time.

- It was wrong of me to sell you Bear.

I'd do anything to get you back.

You're a good horse.

I can see why mom loved you.

- OK, I've got a joke, you wanna hear it?

- Yeah sure.

- Knock, knock.

- Who's there?

- Mary.

- Mary who?

- Merry Christmas.

(giggling)

- That's just bad, it's summer.

Who wants to hear Christmas jokes?

- Let's stop joking around,

I want to get back to the art contest.

- We kinda lost interest.

- Sorry Austin.

- How about we play a game instead?

- OK, you guys get everything

ready, I'll be right back.

(giggling, screaming)

- Hey.

- Hey, what do you want?

- We're gonna start a game

of freeze tag, wanna join us?

- Why are you being nice to me?

- Come on, it'll be fun.

- What are you doing kid?

I thought I told you to be

back to help me an hour ago!

- I, I was just on my way.

- It doesn't look like it to me.

I mean it when I tell you to do something,

now get in the car!

- But I didn't do anything!

- And stop talking back to me!

You're a good horse Bear.

Why can't people be like horses?

People are nothing but trouble.

- Jeff, I need to talk with you.

- So talk.

- I made a mistake selling Bear

and I want to buy him back.

- Sorry, he's not for sale.

- Look, he was my mom's horse,

it would mean a lot to me.

He's just another horse to you.

- That's not true.

He's my friend, maybe my only friend.

Come on Bear, let's go to the arena.

- Yes, yes, yes!

- What is it?

- I just got the exact idea I

need for the drawing contest.

- What's your idea?

- Well I need to refine it.

- I don't know what that means.

- Come here and I'll show you.

- Wow.

(neighing)

- I'm sorry I've ignored

you over the years Bear.

It hurt too much to come here.

I drove my Sara away and

now she's dead and gone.

All those years, and I

only visited her once.

Now I'll never see her again.

I wasn't even able to go to her funeral.

I'm sorry (crying) I'm so sorry.

Please forgive me.

(crashing, neighing)

Can I help you?

- No, no, no, no.

- [Otto] What are you doing here?

- I work here, uncle Carl gave me a job.

- We've been worried about you.

- Yeah right, you couldn't wait for me

to get out of the house.

- That's not true!

- You can stop pretending!

I've been talking with grandma

about this job all week.

I can't believe you

didn't know I was here!

- Go ahead and leave, run away!

- Here let me help you.

- I am so sorry.

- Thanks.

- You're just like your father!

And you won't amount to anything either!

- Ethan wait, here, sit down.

All right?

Don't listen to him.

Listen to me son, you're

nothing like that, OK?

You've gotta trust, you've

gotta trust that God

has made you with a plan

and a purpose in mind.

- My life's a mess, what am

I supposed to do with this?

- Brother, everybody's life's a mess, OK?

It's how we respond that

makes us the men we are,

the godly men we need to be.

Don't become that.

God has a purpose that's greater

than this, bigger than you,

and a lot better than that.

- It's easy for you to

say, you're a pastor.

- You think I was always a pastor?

I was no different than you.

I heard what he said to you in there.

You think that is bad?

You should'a lived in

my house growing up, OK?

I had stuff thrown at me,

shouting, yelling, belittling.

Fighting, shoving, pushing.

The only difference is

I didn't fight back.

I trusted in something bigger

and better for my life.

It's out there for you son.

You're just not looking

in the right place.

- You don't know how far I've gone.

- Doesn't matter, doesn't

matter how far you can go

with a short distance back.

- There's no hope for me.

- There's always hope, son.

There's always hope.

- Hey Jeff.

- What do you want?

- How'd you like to make some real money?

- You have my attention.

- Yeah?

I was thinking Dawson's horse against

the horse you've been working with.

- You wanna bet at the turn and burn.

- [Man] Nobody'll ever know.

- I don't know, I've been

training that horse all summer,

his handling couldn't be better.

- Say about $1000?

- Thousand big ones, huh?

- Well, make a lot of good money.

- All right, you got yourself a bet.

- Howdy ho!

Welcome to turn and burn!

(cheering)

- Emily's gonna go first,

and the timer is ready.

(cheering)

OK, that's a good time, 40.869.

Our next rider is Jolene.

(cheering)

OK, that's a good time with a 26.285.

Up next is Michaela.

- [Josh] Come on Michaela,

that's my thousand bucks.

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