There once was an old fellow 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 for that so fervently.
He answered. "You see, I have 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 it's leaning side so it wouldn't fall."
"I got to thinking about that and how much I am 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, and I've withstood a lot of hard times...and I'm still standing. I, too, find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I ask the Lord to prop me up on my leaning side, because just about everyone gets to leaning at times"
Sometimes we get 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, and ask our Heavenly Father to help prop us up on our leaning side, so we can stand straight and tall again.
Take one more look at the photo if you didn't catch it the first time....
1 comment:
Looks like you guys had a fun Halloween. I like the story too about the barn. Thanks for sharing. :)
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