Have A Story? Write It Down
Life Lessons Inspired Author’s Horse-Centered Book
MICHELLE KUNJAPPU Healing and Faith Through the titles and a few short thoughts,
Lancaster Farming Staff Gift of a Horse” to show for it. she said.
MOUNT JOY (Lancaster Co.) After receiving as a gift “Dad’s Later, after noticing an adver
—“l should write a book.” Lady Grace,” an Arabian filly in tisement for short stories that
Perhaps you’ve said these November 1995, Anthony’s jour- touched the soul about horses,
words to youself, or maybe some- ney and story began. Anthony sent a story in that was
one has encouraged you to write The high-spirited horse quickly published. “That’s when I
your life’s experiences for future began teaching her lessons about thought “maybe this is something
generations. trust, self-protection, panic, j ought to pursue,” she said.
Between the moment of inspi- worry, self-sufficiency, and will- The book began t 0 take shape
ration and seeing your words on fulness lessons that Anthony after Christma 6 s 2 001. “I had
pages between a book cover, could paraUel m her own life. written notes that j k t on
however, lies a long road of writ- “At the time, I was working as of just SQ , ould
mg, thinking, revising, recheck- a secretary at Elizabethtown „. •.
ing, discussing, and more writing. Brethren in Christ and every , , .„. ’ . , ‘
In spite of these challenges, time I would learn something . Anthony had dabbled at wnt-
Kathleen Anthony decided to spiritual through working with in B f, n f| poetry through the
take that road and now has “Les- the horse I’d go in to church and y 63 1" 8 ’ however as a church sec
sons In Grace: My Journey to share it,” she said. retary most of her commercial
Her friend wiring consisted of composing
Wendv urged her concise blurbs for the bul,etin -
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... my computer and I got five
ideas down, how- p 3 g eS) i thought ‘wow, this is re
ever Anthony’s ally great,’” she said. “Then it
thoughts made it just seemed like God just poured
to paper only as words into my mind and it just
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Kathleen’s husband Carl also enjoys trail riding. The
couple met on horseback in 1967 and have been riding
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changing lessons, after that,” she
said.
Her major lesson, according to
Anthony, would be coming to
grips with, and accepting, God’s
grace. After learning that lesson
through the help of friends, fami
ly, and the horse, Anthony fin
ished up the book by August,
spending “every little extra” mo
ment at the computer.
Once the book went to the pub
lisher, changes, revisions, and re
working were necessary. “I put in
a few 14-hour days in front of the
computer, until I could hardly
see any more, but I
couldn’t tear myself
away.
“I’d wake up in the
middle of the night with
thoughts and couldn’t
get them out of my
head.” She’d scribble
notes to herself so when
the morning came the
thought would be cap
lured, and begin again
the next day.
A self-described “dis
ciplined person,” she
said, “I never set a
schedule for writing. I
was just compelled to
write until it was done. I
would think it was done
and then a week or two
would go by and there
was more things to
add,” she said.
“Some of the things
were actually experi
enced during the writing
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“I thought I had the main
thrust of the book done by Febru
ary that I had most of it done,”
said Anthony. However she
found that the road that the book
would take continue for months.
It was that February that
Grace kicked her “and I was
ready to scrap the whole thing.”
In spite of her discouragement
with the horse, Anthony found
that new chapters had yet to be
added to the book.
“I never dreamed that I would
learn the major lessons, the life-
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