There is a story of a grocery store owner who tried to weigh a prayer. A
tired-looking woman came into the store and asked for enough food to make a
dinner for her children. The grocer asked her how much she could spend. The
frail woman answered, "I have nothing to offer but a little prayer."
The storekeeper was not very sentimental nor religious, so he said,
half-mockingly, "Write it on paper, and I'll weigh it." So she did. The grocer
placed the prayer on the weight side of his old-fashioned scales. Then he began
piling food on the other side; but to his amazement, the scale would not go
down. He finally became flustered and gave the woman a large bag of food.
The grocer never saw the woman again, but he treasures the slip of paper upon
which the woman's prayer had been written; "Please, Lord, give us this day our
daily bread."
Author unknown. If anyone has a proprietary interest in this story please
authenticate and I will be happy to credit, or remove, as the circumstances
dictate.
WIT & WISDOM - January 25, 1999
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