louise redden, a poorly dressed lady wait a look of defeat on her face walked into a grocery store.She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her have a few groceries.She solfly explained that her hasband was very ill and unable to work,they had seven children and they needed food.John Longhouse,the grocer,scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store at once.Thinking about the family needs,she said: ‘please sir!I bring you the money just as soon as i can.’John told her he could not give her the loan.Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two.The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would pay for what ever she needed for her family.The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, ‘Do you have a grocery list?’Louise replied, ‘Yes sir.’ ‘O.K’ he said, ‘ put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery waighs,I will give you that amount in groceries..’
Louise hasitated a moment,with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it she then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head she bowed.The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed.amazement when the scales went down and stayed down.The grocer, staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, ‘I can’t believe it.’The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of scales.The scale did not balance so he continued to put more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more.
The grocer stood,there in utter disgust.Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement.It was bit a grocery list, it was a prayer, which said:
‘Dear load,you know my needs and i am leaving this in your hands.’
The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence.Louise thanked him and left the store. The other customer handed a fifty-dollar bill to the grocer and said: ‘Tt was worth every penny if it.only God knows how much a prayer weights.’
UNKNOWN WRITER.