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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 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 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."
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:Acknowledge
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."
If you have read this
far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on? I thank God for
everything,especially all my family and
friends.
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Thank you God!
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2 comments:
I loved that story. It gives me a lot to think about. I say thank-you a lot but maybe should say it more. Thanks.
WOW - those statistics are staggering! We are so blessed in North America - thank you so much for sharing!
Angie
godsgrowinggarden.com
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