June 25,2017 Worldwide Steel Cowgirl Day

Well if you are not a member of the Steel Cowgirl group I’m sure the title is foreign to you. This is an awesome group of women only who share about many topics related to riding as well as just encouraging each other daily. Whether you have a bike of your own, or ride on the back, you can be a member, as long as you are a woman! (Sorry guys)

June 25th was designated in this group to be Worldwide Steel Cowgirl Day. This is a day where everyone around the WORLD was encouraged to just get out and ride. It may sound silly to some, but it was a very cool feeling to know that even though I was riding alone, there were women all across the world riding today specifically. We come from all walks of life. It doesn’t matter if we ride a motorcycle or a trike and it doesn’t matter if we ride solo or on the back. It doesn’t matter if we ride a Ninja, a Spyder, a Victory, or a Harley. It  doesn’t matter our color, our beliefs, or our background. There are members from Australia, Canada, Germany, USA and all across the globe. We all just love to ride.

Anyone who rides, knows the biker wave and it’s a simple yet amazing gesture. It struck me yesterday while I was riding and meeting so many others out doing the same, we who ride, wave the biker wave automatically to others as we meet on the road. It’s like an unspoken bond that connects you and briefly you’re part of something bigger. You don’t see “cagers” waving to each other on the road for the most part, and if you do it’s usually not a kind gesture.

What a different world we would live in if everyone took this simple approach daily with everyone- a simple kind gesture to make others feel special and a part of something bigger. We don’t know the people we’re waving to or anything about them other than they ride, but that’s all that matters. Bikers are judged in many cases by their looks, yet most are some of the nicest and caring people you could ask for. Shouldn’t life be like that?

God made each and every one of us and none of us is better than another. We have all made mistakes and none of us is without blame, yet we judge others. The Steel Cowgirl group is an amazing group of ladies that I am proud to be a part of. Many have prayed and sent cards from all over the world to my father-in-law and for that I am extremely grateful and humbled. It has meant a lot to him and to my mother-in law as well. We are called to love one another and that’s exactly what we all need to strive to do. We need to lift each other up and honestly try to make a difference in someone’s life every day. We never know what someone else is really going through, and our kindness today could truly mean the world to someone else. We don’t have to agree with them, but we do need to show compassion for them, whatever the circumstances.

I fall short every day, but want to strive every day to try to be a better person than I was yesterday. Let’s all try to just love one another a little more and maybe it will spread to others as well. Life is too short to not have joy in our hearts and a kind word to share.

“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV