WHAT HAPPENS IN
HEAVEN
I dreamed 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, and it was
terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous
paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
Then we moved on down
a long corridor until we reached the second section.
The angel then said to
me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings
the people asked for are processed and 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 great
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 is 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."
"If you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in
the world who has that opportunity."
"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 attend a church 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're 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.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along
to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.
ATTN:
Acknowledge Dept.:
'Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability
to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people to share it
with."