A poorly dressed woman with a look of defeat on her face, walked onto the grocery store. She approached the owner in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries. She explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and the needed food. John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and asked that she leave his store. Visualizing her family needs, the woman said: "Please. sir! I will bring you the money as soon as I can." John told her he could not give her credit, as she did not have a charge account at this store. Standing beside the counter, a customer overheard the conversation between the two. The customer came forward and told the grocerman that he would stand good for whatever the waman needed for her family. The grocerman sad 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, bowed her head and 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 grocerman and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down. The grocerman staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, "I can't believe it." The customer smiled and the grocerman 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 grocerman stood there in utter discust. Finially, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement. It wasn't a grocery list, but a prayer which read: "Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands." The grocerman gave her the groceries that he had 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, "This was worth every penny of it." It was sometime later that John Longhouse discovered the scales were broken; only God knows how much a prayer weighs.