Hymn Stories: Learning To Lean
Learning To Lean (Sam Stack) John Stallings was born in Georgia in 1938. He has been a Pastor, Evangelist and songwriter. During the 1970’s when Southern Gospel was growing in popularity, he wrote his most popular Gospel Song – Leaning to Lean. While pastoring a church in Montgomery, Alabama, multiple trials came into his life. One of his daughters became gravely ill and nearly died. Another daughter was seriously injured in an automobile accident. During this time, he felt led to leave his church ministry. The family moved to Florida, where he began to build a new home. As the story goes, Stallings was facing these trials and things were not going well for the Stallings family. His faith in Christ allowed him to determine that he would fully trust in the Lord to see him through the difficulties that he was facing. The words and music of a simple chorus came to him. It was the chorus of Learning to Lean. At that time...