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 neither 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."

Author Unknown