3.6.08

I saw an Angel

This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is so true:


I dream 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 .'

'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 place of worship 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