sábado, abril 20, 2013

"Dear God, the Lord knows my needs, I leave this in your hands."


The A poor woman came desperate penniless in a store selling food and asked the owner of the shop owner who gave her some food so she could take their small children, who were hungry in his poor hut. The lady offered to do cleaning, washing or weeding the front of the sale in exchange for that food. The shop owner is not allowed. Then, both insist she asked him to sell her until she could then sell an asset and paying. But the store owner, inflexible, asked the woman to leave. However, the woman thinking of her family continued begging: "Please sir, I will pay as soon as possible." The shop owner refused saying he could not give credit to a person he did not know.

Near the entrance of the store was a customer who overheard the conversation. The customer approached and told the owner that he would be responsible for purchasing the woman, but he ignored it.
The store owner turned to wife and asked: "Do you have a grocery list?", She replied "Yes sir."
"Okay, put your list on the scales and weigh as your list, I'll give you in food," he said.
She hesitated for a moment, his head bowed, took her wallet a piece of paper and wrote on it. Then, lest the woman put the paper in the balance. By doing this the scales down at once, as if he had placed a stone on it. The store owner and the customer looked with wonder and admiration. The shop owner began to put food on the other side of the scale, but she did not budge, so he continued to put more and more food, but as the scale never equaled, he broke down and picked up the piece of paper to see if there was some trick.
The shop owner looked at the paper and read with amazement ... was not a grocery list, it was a prayer that said, "Dear God, the Lord knows my needs, I leave this in your hands."
The shop owner gave the woman all the foods that were in balance and fell silent as the woman left the store.

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