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Heaven's
Grocery
Store
Submitted
by Liz Dix
Author Unknown
As
I was walking along "LIFE'S HIGHWAY" a long time
ago One day I saw a sign that read "Heaven's
Grocery Store". As I got a little closer the door
came open wide. There was a host of Angels, they
were standing everywhere. One handed me a basket
and said, "MY CHILD SHOP WITH CARE".
Everything
a Christian needed was in that grocery store, and
what you couldn't carry you could come back for
more.
First,
I got some Patience, Love, that was in the same
row. Farther down was Understanding, something you
need everywhere you go.
I
got a box or two of Wisdom, and a bag or two of
Faith. I stopped for Strength and Courage to help
me run this race. Though my basket was nearly full,
I remembered I needed Grace.
I
didn't forget Salvation, for Salvation that was
free. So I tried to get enough for both you and me.
Then I started up the aisle, I saw Prayer and I
just had to put it in. For I knew when I stepped
outside I would run right into sin.
Peace
and Joy were plentiful, they were on the last
shelf. Songs of Praise were hanging near, so I just
helped myself. Then I said to the Angel "How much
do I owe?" He just smiled and said "JUST TAKE THEM
EVERYWHERE YOU GO"
Again,
I asked the Angel, "How much do I really owe?"
Still smiling he said "MY CHILD, JESUS PAID YOUR
BILL LONG AGO."
The Ozarks And The
Internet
In an article that
we featured in a past issue of The Message
Tree, we told you of how in the glory days
of tourism, certain businesses assigned
sign painters to travel across this great
land and make deals with farmers, that
specified that the business would maintain
the roof of the farmers barn for as long
as the barn stood and in return the farmer
was to allow the business to display their
outdoor advertising on the roof of the
barn as in the photo above, that promotes
Meramec Caverns. In those days, farmer's
barns and homes were located alongside of
highways such as route 66, which made the
roof an ideal "canvas" or perhaps
"billboard" for the sign painter. As the
Interstate highways were built, many of
these "signs" were bypassed by progress
and there are not as many examples of this
traditional advertising medium as there
once was.
However your The
Message Tree staff has found two such
examples, sporting a new looking coat of
sign paint the barn above can be seen
alongside I-44 near Philipsburg, a prime
example of an advertising method that is
decidedly low tech. And near Rogersville
on Highway 60 is an example of a brilliant
use of a decidedly low tech advertising
medium, advertising a decidedly high tech
advertising medium.
Is it just me or do
you see a certain bit of irony in this
situation?
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