COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN?

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an Angel was
showing me around.
We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom
 filled with Angels.

My Angel guide stopped in front of the first section
 and said,
"This is the Receiving Section.
Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are
 received."

I looked around in this area, & it was terribly busy
 with so many
 Angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous
 paper sheets and
 scraps from people all over the world.

The Angel then said to me,
"This is the Packaging & Delivery Section.

Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for
 are processed & delivered to the living persons who
 asked for them."

I noticed again how busy it was there.
There were many Angels working hard at that station,
 since so many
blessings had been requested and were being packaged
 for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor,
we stopped at the door of a very small station.
To my greatest surprise, only one Angel was seated
 there, idly doing nothing.

"This is the Acknowledgment Section,"
 
 My Angel friend quietly admitted to me.

He seemed embarrassed

"How is it that?
There's no work going on here?"

I asked.
"So sad," the Angel sighed.

"After people receive the blessings that
 they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments.

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?"

I asked.
"Simple," the Angel answered.

Just say, "Thank you Lord."

"What blessings should they acknowledge?"

I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back,

a roof overhead and a place to sleep...
you are richer than 75% of this world.

"If you have money in the bank, in your wallet,
and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8%
 of the world's wealthy.
"And if you get this on your own computer, you are
 part of the 1% in
 the world who has that opportunity."
Also ...
"If you woke up this morning with more health than
illness...
you are more blessed than the many who will not even
 survive this day.
"If you have never experienced the fear in battle,
the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of
 torture, or the pangs of
 starvation...you are ahead of 700 million people
 in the world.
"If you can worship God…Openly without the fear of
 harassment, arrest, torture or death.
You are envied by, and more blessed than, three
 billion people in the world.

 "If your parents are still alive and still married,
 you are very rare.
 
 If you can hold your head up and smile,
you are not the norm,
you are unique to all those in doubt and despair."

OK, what now? How can I start?
If you can read this message, you just received a
 double blessing in
 that someone was thinking of you as very special and

 you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world
 who cannot read at all.

ATTENTION: Acknowledge Dept…
Thank You Dear Lord!

14:30 - Friday, September 21, 2007 - post comment