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How much does a prayer
weigh?
There is a story of a grocery store owner who tried to weigh one. 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."