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Re: Thread Jewels From The Past
I love this!!
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Originally Posted by BeenThinkin
Falla39
Wouldn't Take Nothin' For My Journey Now!
Posted 11-30-07
Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side...
I received this email this morning from a retired C.of Christ minister.
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 'bout that and how much I was like that old barn. I 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."
-- Author Unknown
Good stuff...
Been Thinkin
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