AMEN

There's this guy who's been lost for about two weeks.  One hot day, he sees the home of a missionary.  Tired and weak, he crawls up to the house and collapses on the doorstep.  The missionary finds him and nurses him back to health.  The man asks the missionary if he can borrow his horse to get to the nearest town. The missionary says, "Sure, but there is a special thing about this horse.  You have to say 'Thank God' to make it go and 'Amen' to make it stop."

The man gets on the horse and says, "Thank God." The horse starts walking.  Then he says, "Thank God, thank God, " and the horse starts trotting.  Feeling really brave, the man says, "Thank God, thank God, thank God, thank God, thank God," and the horse just takes off.

Pretty soon he comes to the edge of a cliff, and he pulls back on the reins to make the horse stop.  "Whoa, stop, hold on!!!!"  But the horse keeps heading for the cliff.  Finally, the man remembers, and screams, "Amen!!"

The horse stops four inches from the cliff.  Much relieved, the man leans back in the saddle and says, "Thank God!"

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Seale United Methodist Church - Seale, Alabama