Do You Sell God Here?
Thinking the boy was pulling a prank, store owners would chase him out. This was the general response he got throughout the day. However, the adamantly determined boy didn’t give up. All day long, he walked in and out of stores seeking an opportunity to buy a little “God” with his humble penny.
As night fell, the little boy visited another store—it was the sixty-ninth shop—and repeated the same question to a silver-haired storekeeper: “Excuse me, Sir. Do you sell God here?”
The storekeeper, an old man, with a kind, gentle look in his eyes smiled and replied: “Tell me, child, why do you want to buy God?”
Finally, someone responded to the boy’s question with compassion. Touched, and with tears rolling down his cheeks, the boy relayed his story to the storekeeper.
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