Shopping For Life :)

This is one soul touching poem I recently read somewhere. . .and so I decided to take you all on a shopping spree :) . . .  :

As I was walking down life's

highway many years ago

I came upon a sign that read

'Heaven's 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 some Courage to 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 to do for you and me.

Then I started to the counter

to pay my grocery bill,

For I thought I had everything

to do the Master's will.

As I went up the aisle

I saw Prayer and put that it,

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 helped 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."