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VISITING
AUTHOR/EDITOR ARTICLE
MAY
2009
What
Happens In Heaven
Forwarded
by Magdalena Metzger
This is one of the nicest mails I have seen and is so true:
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's 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."
Also ...."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 meeting 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 are
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!
"Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message, and for
giving me so many wonderful people to share it with.
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