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LOVING COMPASSION
Author presently unknown

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."

"He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious, merciful, and full of loving compassion.  He has given food and provision to those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him; He will remember His covenant forever and imprint it [on His mind]."  Psalm 111:4-5 AMP