A man was talked into going horseback riding--something he didn't
want to do because he once dreamed he would die in the saddle.  The
owner of the stables told him that the horse he would be riding
would, on its own, take him along the trails leading in and out of
the forests, through the fields and eventually back to the stables. 
                  
The owner told the nervous rider that there were only two things he
had to remember.  The first was that if he wanted the horse to go
forward, he had to say, "Thank God" and if he wanted the horse to
stop, all he had to say was "Hallelujah".

About an hour into his ride, the horse suddenly bolted down a field 
which, at the end of the field, was a deep chasm in which the bottom
was two hundred feet from the top of the cliff.
              
The rider yelled, "Whoa" but naturally that didn't work.  As the
horse was about to leap into the chasm, the rider yelled,
"Hallelujah" and the horse stopped right at the edge of the cliff. 

As the rider peered into the chasm, his heart began to beat rapidly
and he looked up heavenward and cried out in great joy, "Thank God!"