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."
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, 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, you're
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."
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."
"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," 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."
Wow! When we think about it, how blessed we are! Yet, sadly, how often we fail to thank Him for the His many blessings. Take some time today to praise and worship the King of kings, giving thanks to His name for "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning" (James 1:17).
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