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, 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'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 attend a church meeting 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.
Have a good day, count your blessings,
and if you want, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we
all are.
Author: Unknown
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