Editor's Comments:  Anything I could have written would not have equaled this story.  Indeed, He does listen to our prayers and loves horses.  Our thoughts and prayers are with Bill and Linda. 
Sincerely,
Deedy Decker, Managing Editor

Bill Harrison & Princess Thunder Cloud & Gods Little Miracle

(Submitted by Linda Lee Harrison)

"GOD DOES LISTEN TO OUR PRAYERS AND LOVES HORSES" I would like to tell you a brief story and hope you will publish some of it with pictures in your newsletter or magazine...  My husband, Bill Harrison of Scio, Ohio, was diagnosed last August 30, 2000 with terminal lung cancer and in the lymph nodes and it was inoperable. The doctor told him he would only live for 6 to 12 months...  Bill, today is only 60 years old, social security turned him down for disability and he is still trying to work as a tractor mechanic, even though he is tired all of the time and can hardly breathe...  His registered SSHBEA, NSSHA & RHBA mare, Princess Thunder Cloud, either did not have or aborted her foals before we could see any of them for 3 years.  "Then" finally she was definitely pregnant, and due to foal in May, 2001.  Bill thought for sure that he would not live to see any of our colts born -- he also said at this point that he did not care if his mare had a colt or a filly.  He was giving up!  I silently prayed to God to let his mare have a healthy spotted filly as he had always wanted her to have a filly with spots...  Low and Behold!  I went to the barn Saturday morning at 6:00 a.m., May 19, 2001 to feed the horses (as Bill loses his breath too easily and cannot breathe when he walks a little) and I found that "Princess" (his mare) had her foal -- It was a miracle!  A filly, spotted, her mama's color, a buckskin tobiano, white marked on her neck, withers and neck exactly like her mama!  I then knew God had heard my prayers!  I immediately went into the house and told Bill he had to come to the barn right away... I did not tell him what happened, as we had three or four mares due to foal...  He was totally amazed and out of breath from the walk to the barn, he sat down and tears came to his eyes.  It was a total Miracle!  He named the filly Little Magic Princess and he calls the filly "Maggie."  (God's Little Miracle).

Congratulations Bill Harrison, on "Maggie."   I love you... 

Your wife,