Thank You!

[Jennifer]

his is one of the nicest e-mails I've seen:


I had a 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.

Th e 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 a! t 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 ha! ve money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare cha nge 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 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 with whom to share it."