Heavens Grocery Store

All YEAR ROUND I GET LETTERS FROM DIFFERENT CHARITIES ASKING FOR DONATIONS.  I wish I could give more but there are just too many, most them repeat.  A saint's advise to small givers...

Give something however small,

to the one in need.

For it is not small

to the one who has nothing

neither is it small to God,

if we have given

what we could.

-St. Gregory Nazianzen

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THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL

Hello! This came from the Netherlands.

AS I WAS WALKING

DOWN LIFE'S HIGHWAY

MANY YEARS AGO

I CAME UPON A

SIGN THAT READ

HEAVENS GROCERY STORE

WHEN I GOT A

LITTLE CLOSER

THE DOORS SWUNG

OPEN WIDE

AND WHEN I CAME

TO MYSELF

I WAS STANDING

INSIDE

I SAW A HOST OF

ANGELS.

THEY WERE

STANDING EVERYWHERE

ONE HANDED ME A

BASKET

AND SAID, "MY

CHILD SHOP WITH CARE.'

EVERYTHING

A HUMAN NEEDED

WAS IN THAT

GROCERY STORE

AND WHAT YOU

COULD NOT CARRY

YOU COULD COME

BACK FOR MORE

FIRST I GOT SOME

PATIENCE

LOVE WAS IN THAT SAME ROW.

FURTHER DOWN WAS

UNDERSTANDING.

YOU NEED THAT

EVERYWHERE YOU GO

I GOT A BOX OR

TWO OF WISDOM

AND FAITH A BAG

OR TWO.

AND CHARITY OF

COURSE

I WOULD NEED SOME

OF THAT TOO.

I COULDN'T MISS

THE HOLY GHOST

IT WAS ALL OVER

THE PLACE.

AND THEN SOME

STRENGTH

AND COURAGE TO

ME RUN THIS RACE.

MY BASKET WAS

GETTING FULL

BUT I REMEMBERED

I NEEDED GRACE,

AND THEN I CHOSE

SALVATION FOR

SALVATION WAS FOR

FREE

I TRIED TO GET

ENOUGH OF THAT TOO

FOR YOU AND ME.

THEN I STARTED TO

THE COUNTER

TO PAY MY GROCERY

BILL,

FOR I THOUGHT I

HAD EVERYTHING

TO DO THE MASTERS

WILL.

AS I WENT UP THE

AISLE

I SAW PRAYER AND

PUT THAT IN,

FOR I KNEW WHEN I

STEPPED OUTSIDE

I WOULD RUN INTO

SIN.

PEACE AND JOY

WERE PLENTIFUL,

THE LAST THINGS

ON THE SHELF.

SONG AND PRAISE

WERE HANGING NEAR

SO I JUST HELP

MYSELF.

THEN I SAID TO

THE ANGEL

"NOW HOW MUCH DO

I OWE?"

HE SMILED AND

SAID

"JUST TAKE THEM

EVERYWHERE YOU GO."

AGAIN I ASKED

"REALLY NOW,

HOW MUCH DO I

OWE?"

"MY CHILD" HE

SAID, "GOD PAID YOUR BILL

A LONG, LONG TIME

AGO."

THIS POEM HAS

BEEN SENT TO

ME AND YOU

WITH LOVE AND FOR

GOODLUCK.


Published  9/26/04  ALT  MSN Group
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