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\"01-01-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Howdy, Prodigal!\u00a0 I like your horse.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Thank you, I love to go horseback riding.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Well that reminds me of a story about a great horse.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Who doesn’t love horse stories!<\/p>\n

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In the book Chicken Soup for the Country Soul a story was submitted by Philip Kunhardt Jr.\u00a0 It is a long story but it is one of those stories that make you feel good inside so I am going to write it out and I think it is worth reading all of it.<\/p>\n

Snow Man had been on his way to the slaughterhouse, a tired farm horse that nobody seemed to want to care about.\u00a0 Fortunately, somebody did care-and this is the story of that caring.<\/p>\n

One wintery Monday in February 1956, Harry de Leyer, a riding master at the Knox School for Girls on Long Island headed for the Pennsylvania horse auction and was aiming to buy several horses for the school to use.\u00a0 He arrived late, however; most of the horses had been sold.\u00a0 Wandering outside, he saw several sorry-looking animals being loaded into a butcher’s van.\u00a0 These were the “killers”-worn-out work horses that nobody wanted, except the meat dealer.\u00a0 The sight made Harry sad.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, Harry spotted a big gray gelding plodding up the ramp.\u00a0 The horse was chunky, but lighter than the others, and there was a spirited pitch to his ears, a brightness in his eyes.\u00a0 Unaccountably, on instinct alone, de Leyer called to the loader to bring the horse back down.<\/p>\n

“You crazy?”\u00a0 said the meat dealer.”\u00a0 He is just an old farm horse.”<\/p>\n

Probably, Harry thought.\u00a0 The animal’s ribs showed, his coat was matted with dirt and manure, there were sores on his legs.\u00a0 Still, there was something about him…<\/p>\n

“How much do you want for him?” de Leyer asked.<\/p>\n

That is how it all started.\u00a0 Harry de Leyer redeemed and old plug for eighty dollars.<\/p>\n

The whole de Leyer family was out to greet the horse the next day.\u00a0 Down the ramp of the van he came, stumbling over his big feet.\u00a0 He looked slowly about, blinking in the bright winter sun.\u00a0 Then, ankle-deep in snow, covered with shaggy white hair, he stood still as a statue.\u00a0 One of the children said, “He looks just like a snow man.”<\/p>\n

They all set about turning Snow Man into a horse again.\u00a0 First they clipped him lightly, and then they washed him-three times.\u00a0 In a while, the horseshoer came.\u00a0 Finally, cleaned and curried and shod, Snow Man was ready for his training sessions as a riding horse.<\/p>\n

But Snow Man learned fast.\u00a0 By spring, he was carrying the novice riders at Knox, and some of the girls even began asking for him in preference to the better-looking horses.<\/p>\n

When school closed that summer, Harry de Leyer made what might have been the biggest mistake of his life: he sold Snow Man to a neighborhood doctor for double his money, with the understanding that the doctor would not sell Snow Man, except back to him.<\/p>\n

Now Snow Man began showing a side that hadn’t previously come to light.\u00a0 He insisted on jumping the doctor’s fences, no matter how high they were raised, and coming home-cross-country over fields and lawns, through backyards and gardens.\u00a0 Irate citizens called the police.\u00a0 The doctor was glad to let de Leyer have Snow Man back.<\/p>\n

The feeling was mutual.\u00a0 For in some strange way, de Leyer had come to believe that he and Snow Man shared a common destiny.\u00a0 Solemnly he promised himself never again to part with the horse.<\/p>\n

Now, with indication that Snow Man liked to jump, de Leyer began giving him special schooling as a jumper.\u00a0 With kindness and hard work, he helped Snow Man over tougher and tougher obstacles.\u00a0 Finally, in the spring of 1958, de Leyer decided to put the big gray to his first real test-at the Sands Point Horse Show on Long Island, where he would compete with some of the top open jumpers in the land.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, out on the Sands Point jump course, Snow Man could do no wrong.\u00a0 Again and again, spectators held their breath, expecting the ungainly looking animal to come crashing down on the bars-but he never did.\u00a0 By nightfall of the second day of the three-day show, he had achieved the seemingly impossible:\u00a0 He was tied for the lead in the open jumper division with the great old campaigner, Andante.<\/p>\n

Then, with success so close, on his final jump of the day, Snow Man landed with his feet too close together, and a back hoof slashed his right foreleg.\u00a0 By the following day, it would be swollen and stiff.\u00a0 But de Leyer wasn’t one to give up easily.\u00a0 He cut a section out of a tire tube, slipped it over Snow Man’s injured leg like a sock, tied up the bottom and filled the tube with ice.\u00a0 All night long, he kept the improvised sock full of fresh ice, telling Snow Man over and over how they would win the next day.<\/p>\n

Harry de Leyer now saw that he had a potential champion-possibly even a national champion.\u00a0 However, giving Snow Man a chance to prove it meant hitting the horse-show circuit in earnest, vanning to a new show each weekend, putting up big entry fees, riding his heart out-a long, tiring summer and autumn that could end in little reward.\u00a0 Moreover, a spot on Harry’s tongue had started hurting, and that worried him.\u00a0 It would be easier to forget about championships.\u00a0 Still, after talking it over, Harry and Joanna decided that Snow Man deserved a try.<\/p>\n

So, to Connecticut they went.\u00a0 Snow Man won at the Fairfield Horse Show and at Lakeville.\u00a0 Then to Branchville, New Jersey, but Harry was in no condition to ride a winner.\u00a0 His tongue was bothering him badly, and he had scarcely eaten for a week.\u00a0 Consequently, Snow Man had a bad day.\u00a0 Blaming himself for the big jumper’s first loss, Harry de Leyer drove home that Sunday night gritting his teeth against his pain.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he went to the doctor.\u00a0 On Tuesday, he entered a Long Island hospital to have a tumor removed from his tongue.\u00a0 On Saturday, he got the laboratory report:\u00a0 The tumor was malignant.\u00a0 It was the end of the life he had known, the end of Snow Man’s quest for glory.<\/p>\n

Sitting at the show, de Leyer heard his name announced over the loud-speaker:\u00a0 He needed to go home immediately.\u00a0 Harry’s first thought was his children!\u00a0 His second-a fire!\u00a0 He sped home, wondering how much more a man could take.\u00a0 But when he turned into the driveway, the children were playing in the yard and there stood the house.\u00a0 Joanna was close to hysteria, however.\u00a0 A message had come from the hospital that Harry’s laboratory report had been mixed up with another:\u00a0 The tumor was no malignant!<\/p>\n

“All of a sudden,”\u00a0 Harry says, “my life was handed back to me.”<\/p>\n

From then on, the summer and early fall became one happy rush toward more and more championships at important shows.\u00a0 And finally it was November, time for the biggest show of all-the National at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

The National Horse Show lasts eight days.\u00a0 Horses that lack either consistency or stamina are weeded out long before the final night.\u00a0 After seven days Snow Man was tied in the Open Jumper Division with a chestnut mare, First Chance.\u00a0 For their jump-off on the eight day, the course was long and intricate.\u00a0 It wove around the Garden oval in four overlapping loops; it included quick turns and changes of direction-combinations that call for perfect timing and coordination.<\/p>\n

First Chance went first.\u00a0 Whether is was the tenseness of the moment, wear and tear from so many days of jumping or difficulties of the course, no one can be sure.\u00a0 At any rate, First Chance “knocked” several barriers.<\/p>\n

Now it was up to Snow Man to run a cleaner course.\u00a0 There were a few touches, but far fewer than First Chance had made.\u00a0 Finally Snow Man approached the last jump.<\/p>\n

Now Harry de Leyer sat up in the saddle and threw the reins across the horse’s neck.\u00a0 He was showing, for everyone to see, that it was not he who was responsible for this great performance, it was the horse.\u00a0 Snow Man rumbled up to that final jump, and he thrust and sailed and it was done! and he thrust and he sailed and it was done!\u00a0 An old and unpedigreed farm horse had won it all-the National Horse Show Open Jumper Championship, the Professional Horsemen’s Association Trophy and the American Horse Shows Association High Score Award.\u00a0 He was declared “Horse of the Year” in open jumping.<\/p>\n

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You know I love this story.\u00a0 You might not\u00a0have known but I am that horse.\u00a0 I was matted with dirt, ribs showing and sores and headed toward death.\u00a0 I was in line for death and, I didn’t even know how bad I was.\u00a0 Then I was saved.<\/p>\n

Then the unthinkable happened.\u00a0 In a world with pedigrees and beautiful horses and the most beautiful pastures.\u00a0 This horse was allowed to be tested with several races.\u00a0 With nothing to show but heart, and a faithful rider,\u00a0this horse somehow managed to stay in the race.\u00a0 There is one difference though.\u00a0 The final race the reins will be let go, but it is not to show that the horse is responsible for this great performance, it is to show that the faithful rider is sole responsible for the beginning to the end.\u00a0 At the end this horse will\u00a0hear those words “Well done, good and faithful servant, well done.”\u00a0\u00a0 See I am the horse and Christ is that faithful rider.<\/p>\n

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Matthew 25:21<\/p>\n

His master said to hi, Well done, good and faithful servant.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

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www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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