Acknowledgement

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
backacknowledgments .."

"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, 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.

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."

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!!