[CS-FSLUG] I dreamt...................

[Fred A. Miller]

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, a! nd 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 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 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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