Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with 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 charge a few groceries.
She softly explained that her husband 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. Visualizing the
family needs, she said: 'Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as
soon as I can." John told her he could not give her credit, as she did not
have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the
conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the
grocer man that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family.
The grocer man 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 list weighs,
I will give you that amount in groceries." Louise, hesitated 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 still bowed. The eyes
of the grocer man and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down
and stayed down. The grocer man staring at the scales, turned slowly to the
customer and said begrudgingly, "I can't believe it." The customer smiled
and the grocer man started putting the groceries on the other side of the
scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more
groceries on them until the scales would hold no more. The grocer man stood
there in utter disgust.

Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it
with greater amazement. It was not a grocery list, it was a prayer which
said: "Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands."
The grocer man gave her the groceries that he had gathered and placed on the
scales and stood in stunned silence.
Louise thanked him and left the store. The customer handed a fifty dollar
bill to John as he said, "It was worth every penny of it."

It was sometime later that John Longhouse discovered the scales were
broken; therefore, only God knows how much a prayer weighs.

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