I received this email from my nephew today.
I don't normally post forwards ,
but this was very special.
His wife is also fighting cancer and doing
chemo and radiation treatments.
Her name is Donna and if you pray for her
the Lord knows her needs.
I believe that He rejoices when He hears our prayers
given with love and caring hearts,
especially when it is for others that we don't even know personally.
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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."
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I hope this blessed you
as it did me this morning.
Have a lovely day.
Your blogging sister,
Connie :)
