LORD, PROP US UP

Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon
who always prayed, Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side.
After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone
asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently. He answered,
'Well sir, you see, it's like this...I got an old barn out back.
It's been there a long time, it's withstood a lot of weather,
it's gone through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many
years.
It's still standing. But one day I noticed it was
leaning to one side a bit.
So I went and got some pine poles
and propped it up
on its leaning side so it wouldn't fall.
Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was
like that old barn. I've been around a long time. I've withstood
a lot of life's storms. I've withstood a lot of bad weather in
life, I've withstood a lot of hard times, and I'm still standing
too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so
I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, cause
I figure a lot of us get to leaning, at times.
Sometime we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward
bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing,
leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn't. So we need to
pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our leaning side,'
so we will stand straight
and tall again, to glorify the Lord.
If you stare at this barn for a second or
two,
you will see who will help us stand straight and tall again.
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