E PLURIBUS UNUM

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.

Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness,
leani ng toward hatred, leaning toward wrong language, 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.

I received this from a friend through email, and thought it was good enough to share with the rest of my friends.




If you stare at this barn for a couple of seconds you will see who will help us stand
straight and tall again.