> *WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?* > 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 > 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 Gods 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 worlds wealthy, and 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, youre > unique to all those in doubt and despair....... > > Ok, I said. What now? How can I start? > > The Angel said, 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 care to, pass this along > to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.......... > > **ATTN:Acknowledgment Dept.** > Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for > giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it.
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