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There was older 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.
I got to thinking 'bout 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 off 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.
 
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For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved. 

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