{"id":7164,"date":"2026-01-14T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:56:07","slug":"living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=7164","title":{"rendered":"Living the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191228_100001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7022\" style=\"width:369px;height:277px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191228_100001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191228_100001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191228_100001-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191228_100001-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191228_100001-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me: I will be dogged, you going to the rodeo prodigal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  You never know what will come up next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from the book Chicken Soup for the Country Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Ron Camacho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even when he was hurt, Joe seldom missed a rodeo.  Once, his wrist got caught in the rope, and he dangled on the side of the bull as it kicked him and knocked him unconscious.  He was taken away on a stretcher, blood running down his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He came back from that injury and many others.  But by now weeks had passed since he&#8217;d brought home a paycheck.  Maybe I&#8217;m just not trying hard enough, Joe thought.  The bills were all way past due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mesquite, on the outskirts of Dallas, is the site of one of the best-known rodeos in America.  One day a Dodge Truck executive called rodeo owner Neal Gay with a promotion idea.  If Gay would pick the meanest, wildest bull he could find, Dodge would put up a five-thousand dollar prize for any cowboy who could ride it  for eight seconds.  The pot would grow by five hundred dollars every time the bull shucked a rider.  The bull would be named after a new truck, Dodge Dakota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gay liked the idea.  He contacted Lester Meier, a rodeo producer who owned a nightmarish black bull that weighed 1,700 pounds and had a single horn crawling ominously down the side of its white face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You got Dodge Dakota,&#8221; Meier told Gay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the thirty bull riders who competed at Mesquite every weekend, only one, assigned randomly by a computer, got a crack at Dodge Dakota.  Week after week, the beast sent cowboys hurtling, even a former world champion.  But Joe Wimberly was never chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe was carrying a fifty-pound feed sack toward the horse pen at his ranch when he heard the screen door slam.   Paula hurried over.  &#8220;The rodeo called, Joe,&#8221; she said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You drew Dodge Dakota for Friday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe dropped the feed sack.  &#8220;You&#8217;re kiddin&#8217; me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;No, Joe, I ain&#8217;t kiddin&#8221;.  The pot had grown to $9,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe started riding the bull in his mind.  Stay loose, he told himself.  This is just another bull.  But Joe knew Dakota was a vicious outlaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to those who had studied Dakota, the bull started every ride the same way.  It blew out of the chute, took one jump, kicked over its head, stepped backward and spun to the left, all in about two seconds.  After that, it was anybody&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That Friday, Joe paced behind the chutes.  He looked up in the stands and saw his family.  When the spotlight flashed on him, he pulled himself over the rails and settled on the broad, humped back of Dodge Dakota.  He wrapped the rope around his right hand; the other end was twisted around the belly of the beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord, I&#8217;m comin&#8217; to you like a friend, Joe pleaded silently.  You know how much I need this ride.  Beads of sweat grew on his forehead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gate swung open.  Dakota bolted, and Joe&#8217;s thighs squeezed tight.  The beast bucked hard, lifting Joe into the air, then slammed down.  The bull bellowed and twisted to its left.  Foam spewed from its snout.  The cowboy thumped back on his seat, the rope burning his hand.  He shot in the air, his head snapping backward, hat flying off, but he hun on.  The stands thundered&#8211;six thousand fans on their feet, screaming, shrieking, stomping.  The clock flashed five seconds, six seconds&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dakota groaned in a voice from hell and bucked violently, four hoofs in the air.  Suddenly the bull ran alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crashing flat on his back, Joe looked up to see the belly of the bull and its slamming hoofs.  He scrambled away as the clowns chased Dakota back to its pen.  Joe searched for Paula in the stands and slowly mouthed the words, &#8220;I am sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late that summer, Joe was again paired with Dodge Dakota.  In an instant this time, the bull slammed him and his dreams to dirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now Joe was scrambling for money.  He shod horses.  He entered jackpot bull-riding contests, organized a rodeo school.  But none of this put much of a dent in his debts.  He was finally forced to place an ad in the house-for-sale section of the newspaper.  &#8220;It&#8217;s only boards and paint and siding,&#8221;  he told a tearful Paula.  &#8220;If we stay together as a family, it doesn&#8217;t matter where we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe paid another humiliating visit to the banker.  &#8220;Can&#8217;t I have just a little more time?&#8221;  the cowboy pleaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve had time, Joe,&#8221;  the banker said flatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One Friday in September, Joe was riding at Mesquite.  With all his troubles at home, Joe hadn&#8217;t been thinking much about bulls.  The purse for Dodge Dakota had grown to seventeen thousand dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They had stopped announcing ahead of time which cowboy would ride Dakota.  Now they drew the name during intermission.  Suddenly a rodeo official called out, &#8220;Hey, Joe Wimberly, you got Dakota.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neal Gay came by.  &#8220;Third time&#8217;s the charm,&#8221; the rodeo owner said with a wink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Paula watched from the stands, her heart began to pound.  Twice before, she had seen Joe&#8217;s hopes soar as high as the stars, and then sink to the depths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe climbed up to the bucking chutes.  The season was almost over.  Twenty-four times a cowboy had boarded Dodge Dakota, and twenty-four times the bull had won.  The pot was big enough to save his house, to pay the bills, even to have a little extra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cowboy pulled himself over the rails and straddled the bull that stomped inside its chute.  The rope was wrapped around his hand as tight as a noose.  One of his favorite phrases came to mind:  &#8220;If you ain&#8217;t got no choice, be brave.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gate swung open, and the clock started counting the eight most important seconds of Joe Wimberly&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The huge black beast bellowed.  Nealy a ton of muscle and bone thundered by.  Dakota&#8217;s head snapped violently.  Its eyes flashed fire.  Dust rose from its kicking hoofs.  And the clock ticked-two seconds&#8230;.three&#8230;.four&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe bounced on the bull&#8217;s hard back, straining for balance.  Then another punishing buck.  He dangled at the edge, fighting gravity.  Six seconds&#8230;&#8230;seven seconds&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joe crashed to the dirt as the horn sounded.  A sudden hush swept over the arena.   The fans stared down at the rodeo boss, who was staring at the timekeeper, who was staring at the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An excited official raised his arms in the air, the sign of a touchdown.  Joe had made it by two-hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cowboy dropped to his knees.  &#8220;Thank you, Jesus!&#8221; Joe cried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wherefore, If God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew 6:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: I will be dogged, you going to the rodeo prodigal? Prodigal: You never know what will come up next. This is from the book Chicken Soup for the Country Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Ron Camacho Even when he was hurt, Joe seldom missed a rodeo. 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